Word: soberness
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...might like to read a family saga. Mazo de la Roche had made a phenomenal success with her Jalna books. Last year Faith Baldwin plunged into a set of serious novels tracing the development of a typical middle class family from its U. S. beginning to the present. Partly sober realism, partly sugary sentiment, American Family promptly became the best selling of all Faith Baldwin's many best sellers...
...souls. In the big auditorium proper were folding chairs, loudspeakers and a banner, FOR JEHOVAH AND FOR GIDEON. Nearby was a temporary hospital staffed by voluntary nurses and a big rawboned country doctor. Through the three floors surged unpowdered women of all ages, many carrying children; coatless young men; sober old men; Scandinavian-looking farmers. They had come from as far away as California, most of them in automobiles and "house-cars" (trailers) which they had parked in a camp far out on Massachusetts Avenue. For five days they crowded Washington Auditorium, fraternizing, listening to speeches, consuming hamburgers with gravy...
Princess Ingrid wore no jewels. On her head was a small wreath of myrtle. She wore the lace and carefully preserved orange blossoms that her mother had worn at her own wedding 30 years ago. Her bouquet was a small bunch of lilies of the valley. Sober Crown Prince Frederick wore the blue-black uniform of a Danish naval officer with a blue sash. To the chancel rail came lantern-jawed Archbishop Erling Eidem, and after him the Princess repeated...
...which is sometimes spoken of as murder, is more often thought of as manslaughter in self-defense than as murder in the first degree. But in peacetime, when thoughts of the last war can be retroactively sober, it is possible to analyze the impersonal hecatombs of battle into individual instances of coldblooded killing. Since the World War, writers who are also veterans have been resurrecting many an unknown soldier. Their grisly finds make a pile of evidence more terribly impressive (though more ephemeral) than any neat, white, euphemistic cenotaph to the glorious dead. Austria's Andreas Latzko...
...sober-sided City men of the British Bankers Association were treated one night last week to an outburst of joy from the most formidable Tory of them all-the chill Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer, Neville Chamberlain. The man who has given Britain budget surpluses for two years past rose in his place, took off his eyeglasses, looked paternally about him and all but chortled, "We meet in an atmosphere of such happiness and contentment as has not been seen since the War." He proceeded to document the atmosphere with an impressive set of figures...