Word: soberness
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...Paris artists, tired of tales of their amorality, was publication in Paris-Soir of a lurid Life & Love of Maurice Utrillo. Sad-eyed, lanky Artist Utrillo got a tosspot reputation in his youth, produced, nevertheless, many serious and hauntingly gifted paintings, and for at least ten years has been sober as a church. The Life & Love was accordingly branded "A tissue of lies, calumnies and erroneous or tendentious information" in a manifesto issued by 54 furious artists and critics, including such noted names as Derain, Picasso, Kisling...
...clubwomen about U. S. publishing are that books cost too much, are too long, that publishers try to dictate their reading habits by high-pressure publicity. In San Antonio, for example, club members snubbed Laura Krey's highly publicized romance, . . . and Tell of Time, preferred Jonathan Daniels' sober criticism, A Southerner Discovers the South. In Omaha, clubwomen feel that publishers pay too much attention to Manhattan opinion, not enough to the more spiritual interests of Midwesterners. But the major complaint of women's literary clubs throughout the U. S. is that publishers talk down to them, defer...
...York Herald Tribune Walter Lippmann, most statesmanly Jewish pundit in the U. S., took a sober and broad-gauge view of the situation. Said...
Bart J. Bok, Instructor in Astronomy, has just returned from a speaking tour at several girls' colleges. He finds that the girls at Mt. Holyoke are much more sedate than those at Vassar. Personally he prefers the less sober atmosphere at Vassar, which was founded by a beer baron...
...demise. He has had seven fat years since on the Times where he distinguished himself as an able articulator of the ideas of Publisher Arthur Hays ("The Boss") Sulzberger. For some time he has been one of the august council of seven-that tunes the Times. His new, sober post will probably not dim his quick...