Word: soberness
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...Century and Broadway are composed of company-owned baggage and public cars coupled with matching all-room sleepers built by Pullman Co. Each has eight all-room Pullmans, accommodations including snug roomettes, single and double bedrooms, compartments, drawing rooms. Each has two diners. The Century's, informal but sober, stick to rust tones and grey. The Broadway's, more splendiferous, have a speak-easy style midsection with side-seat nooks. Each has a bar-lounge, the Century's, mannish, leathery, the Broadway's, like an intimate cocktail room...
...Nonsense!" snapped Jimmy Hines, whose neighbors know him as a sober, honest family man whose only vices are golf, betting on horses and prize fights, giving lavish political parties. "That's ridiculous! Dewey knows better than anyone that that...
...huge aviation training airdrome at Leuchars, near Dundee, or a submarine base at Rosyth on the Firth of Forth). With 42 Crown witnesses ready to testify against her, Hairdresser Jordan changed her plea to guilty, was sentenced to four years' hard labor. Startling was the connection between this sober bit of Scottish espionage and the slapstick comedy in Manhattan: a lengthy non-tonsorial correspondence was unearthed between Hairdresser Jordan and Hairdresser Hofmann...
...substitutes for blacklisted symphonies and operas, Nazis on dancing bent hardly know which way to turn. Last month an article in Die Spielschar, organ of the Hitler Youth Movement, moped long and heavily over this question. Die Spielschar agreed that the motions prescribed by swing are unworthy of a sober man, but protested that rump-slapping peasant dances were equally inappropriate for sophisticated Germans. With these two categories of dancing verboten, there would be nothing left but waltzes. "For those who seek a way to graceful and natural German dancing," sighed Die Spielschar, "the points of departure . . . are terrifyingly...
...kind in the U. S. * The occasion: The Music School Settlement's annual uptown concert. But few of the children who performed at last week's concert are likely to become ambition-mad prodigies or struggling virtuosos. They are more likely to become mothers and fathers, sober citizens whose lives have been made more interesting through the study of music. For Manhattan's Music School Settlement, like Greater New York's 13 other community and settlement music schools (and over 50 other such schools scattered through U. S. cities), has always stressed the value of music...