Word: soberness
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...Japan's unbroken (but, thanks to some perfectly divine concubines, occasionally knotted) string of 124 emperors. To Occidentals, the celebration looked like so much hocuspocus. This scoffing attitude was symptomatic of the blind misunderstanding of Japan's ways which last week threatened-in the opinion of some sober commentators, more immediately than Europe's troubles-to get the U. S. into...
...makes each work of art a scholarly achievement. It is true that during the fifteenth century the Renaissance was well on its way toward what proved to be a comprehensive exodus from the medieval tradition, but nothing is more representative of the scholastic mind than the highly neutralized, cool, sober color of van der Goes and his almost Aristotelian concern for accuracy and precision. It is not difficult to see, simply by examining some of the paintings on exhibit, that the full spirit of the Renaissance did not reach the art of the northern countries until well after...
...when they mounted the platform of Yale's Sprague Hall. Their subjects for the first lecture-the Existence of God for Father Orchard, the Nature of God for Dr. Roberts-were typical of the series. The Yale Christian Conference is neither a debate nor a revival, but a sober discussion for a mature audience. Its recent course has been cheering to churchmen searchingfor signs of a U. S. religious revival. In the '20s, attendance dwindled: the conferences were abandoned when only 150 people turned out to hear Sherwood Eddy in 1926. When they were begun again last year...
...awful sad, 'cause he was mighty sad and it seemed to him as though things could never be anything but sad. All the old bunch were leaving in a rush of stumbling footsteps as the new and fresh and clean and sober gang came in to take them home. "Well," he said, "I guess we won't ever be anything but sad. But gosh, I majored in the Crimson, and if I wasn't so drunk and pied I'd shed a tear for the Crimson." Arthur apparently can't write an editorial...
...night long and into the morning, the rescue craft searched Nantucket Sound, but no ship could they find in distress. At 5 a. m. two Massachusetts State Troopers visited Captain Brown with a warrant, locked him up for drunkenness, despite his stout assertion that he was stone sober, that there wasn't a drop in the house. Later that morning, at Edgartown District Court, a magistrate believed the cops, convicted Captain Brown. The captain took the rap like a good soldier, but he shook his head soberly. "I tell you, I heard it," he insisted. "I would...