Word: soberness
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...Ghost of Yankee Doodle" Sidney Howard grapples with the problem of war and peace, demonstrates the impotence of sober liberalism as pitted against drunken jingoism, but ends with a faint note of hope for the forces of temperance and sanity, a note which is scarcely justified by what has gone before. A great newspaper owner, a frank caterer to mob passions, is the chief antagonist; while two brothers, a manufacturer and a one-paper journalist, do battle for liberalism and pacifism, but draw their strength from a woman, their sister-in-law. There is something in the play...
...that no such social upsets could possibly occur again in so well-ordered a world. Against this 18th Century background appeared last week two full-dress biographies of Poet Tom Moore. Author Jones's was the more tricked'-out in period furbelows; Author Strong's more sober-minded version was the better bet for serious readers...
...Washington counseled his country against entangling alliances. More tolerance to new policies that seem to clash with old American customs may develop when we realize that many accepted reforms like free education, the limitation of hours of labor, and the extension of credit to farmers, were once branded by sober citizens as radical and subversive...
...flattered when Will Durant included her, along with celebrities ranging from Benito Mussolini to Mary Garden, in a sober symposium on Life. (She wrote: "For me, life is interesting, entertaining, happy, if only I can have some activity for the restlessness that is in my heart...
Conventions are an ordinary U. S. phenomenon, to be rated according to 1) size, 2) noise, 3) absurdity. The Legion's Convention was in not too sober fact an all-time top in all respects. Total attendance, including families of Legionnaires, was 110,000. In six days, the 110,000 reputedly spent $1,300,000 on lodgings, $1,100,000 on food, $1,100,000 on entertainment (chief item, liquor), $1,200,000 in stores, $675,000 on incidentals. Reports that during the uproar in the Astor bar, light-hearted Legionnaires had killed the bartender by bashing...