Word: soberness
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While their president was thus engaged at Yale, Chicago faculty men chuckled at a rare piece of pedagogical audacity in the International Journal of Ethics, ordinarily one of the University's most sober publications. In what began as an innocuous review of President Hutchins' recent collection of speeches, No Friendly Voice,* the Journal's Managing Editor Thomas Vernor Smith proceeded to give a critical analysis of his superior's aims and aspirations...
...hearted Hamlin Garland, though he is five years beyond the warning mark, still kept to his lifelong agnosticism. This intransigence was the more remarkable because for 45 years he had been an eager investigator of spiritualism. Last week he submitted his lifetime's report on psychic research. Its sober findings will be respected by followers of both camps but will give little aid & comfort to either...
...Brannan. With a stubborn sweetness that does credit to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's casting intuition, Kay Brannan goes about reforming her oafish Boston scion until, instead of divorcing her to marry the lecherous debutante (Binnie Barnes) who had been his fiancée, he is ready to sober up and settle down to work as a brain surgeon. Best shot: The Captain (Edgar Kennedy) of Dr. Dakin's yacht showing Kay Brannan how to steer...
Meantime, however, Julian was learning fast. He learned by working for their neighbor, Henry, a dirty Pennsylvania Dutchman, but a good farmer, with a periodic weakness for the bottle. Thanks to Henry's precepts and sober example, Julian was able to save his father's farm from absolute ruin, but it was hard going...
...marry, and that was young Ned McLean. The McLeans, who owned the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer, had struck it rich a generation or so before the Walshes. Even Evalyn could see that Ned McLean was pretty thoroughly spoiled. But "he was a dear when he was sober. . . . When he was not spree-drinking he often led a most exemplary life; he loved to play with horses and dogs, and concerning golf he became, eventually, so keen that he hired a leading professional to teach him." So, after being engaged on & off many times, Evalyn finally eloped with...