Word: soberness
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...other opposition having been crushed-the Supreme Court was still to stand in the way of the New Deal. To approach it, he turned to the question of NRA: "Overproduction, underproduction and speculation are three evil sisters who distill the troubles of unsound inflation and disastrous deflation. . . . Sober second thought confirms most of us in the belief that the broad objectives of the National Recovery Act were sound. We know now that its difficulties arose from the fact that it tried to do too much. For example, it was unwise to expect the same agency to regulate the length...
...visit their mother, Novelist Sylvia Thompson (Mrs. Peter Luling), 34, treated Manhattan newshawks to a precocious discourse on their Teddy bears, "M" and "Teddy": "M is only six years old, but she's a gay lady who ignores little boys. Now Teddy, he's oldish and a sober sides. But he's a liberal and wears a top hat. M does not believe in Santa Claus, and there's logic in what she says always. M appreciates classical beauty, but she and Teddy were ever so distressed and annoyed when they were held one year...
...that opened with the expeditions of Prince Henry of Portugal from 1394 to 1460, together with an excellent account of the joint-stock companies, the Merchant Adventurers of New England, who paved the way for England's colonial expansion. Professor Andrews usually finds in the English adventurer companies sober self-interest pulling the wires, with small ports out to smash London monopolies, and England in turn encouraging colonization to smash Spain. The trading companies themselves were usually split with factional fights among their directors, riddled with graft. They organized and abandoned colonies as it suited the strategies of their...
...door of the old building were two bronze eagles to symbolize the paper's name, its wide flight for news. Under the Eagle's eagles passed many a capable newsman, such famed Brooklyn editors as Dr. St. Clair McKelway and Dr. Arthur Millidge Howe, who wrote sober, sensible Eagle editorials for 38 years...
...rarely sees his players on the stage, seemed to put little attention to the fact that Ah Wilderness sober-minded and frivolous to chuckling, that Without End, the following year, failed. Son of actor whose name was known 48 years ago, attended Princeton in 1906 7. Wanderlust caused him to leave college. He a good deal of Central and South America, spent two years at sea, is supposed to have been a beach-comber for a time before he returned to America...