Word: soberness
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...that each man is concerned with a subject on which he is either an authority or has ample time to become one. The books just pass hand to hand until all the questions have been taken care of. The result is that all parts of each paper have received sober and competent attention; but, more important, all the papers have received exactly the same treatment...
...excused his London spree by saying that his Jewish mistress Magda Lupescu, whom he left behind in Paris, exerts a "motherly influence" upon the King, and that with this suddenly removed his "boyish and highly susceptible nature" got out of hand. At the Ritz in Paris the King soon sobered. "I do not believe war is imminent," he wisely told correspondents. "In fact, I am confident peace can be maintained. In this respect I have great hopes for the reign of Edward VIII. He is a man endowed with rare equilibrium - rare equilibrium ! My own country, my beloved Rumania, each...
Sports were forbidden and the "blue" laws were strictly enforced. The day was devoted to church activities and sober conversation about the good fortune of the colonists. During the holiday dinner, 'was the custom in many households for the father to read sermons aloud...
...Dodo, being the sober creature that he was and not caring much for turkey anyway, was less interested in the news: "Dear girl, if the Department of Agriculture at Washington wants to experiment with turkeys to get a smaller species -- and even if it will look like a duck, that should not disturb us too much. It will still be turkey...
...Sober Dr. Condon...