Word: soberness
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...Away Home (by Dorothy Bennett & Irving White; Theron Bamberger, producer). There are eight adolescents in Fly Away Home and a trio of adults who also act pretty childishly. Of these oldsters the most amusing is Thomas Mitchell, cast as a sober-sided father whose divorced wife found him too serious. He has not seen his children for years until he returns to the family's summer home to witness his wife's remarriage to a visionary professor...
...these pamphlets is a deliberate attempt on the part of someone to create an atmosphere of prejudice against the defendant. . . ." For a while it looked as if the whole panel would have to be discharged as prejudiced. It would take 40 days to draw another. In the chambers of sober old Justice Trenchard, before whom the case was to be tried, prosecution and defense finally agreed that no damage had been done either side...
...Many Paths (by Irving Kaye Davis; Cohn & Scanlon, producers). This year Playwright Davis* has interested himself in the artistic set. Few weeks ago, in a play called All Rights Reserved (TIME, Nov. 19), he pondered the problem of a sober essayist who goes berserk when a book by his wife leads him to believe that she ha's grown promiscuous. So Many Paths concerns an ambitious singer named Clara Kenny (Norma Terns of Mow Boat) An unsuccessful audition drives Clara to such desperation that she flings herself into the arms of a rich protector. He sends her abroad for training...
...Washington started ten days earlier and was 30%, ahead of last year. Two big Atlanta department stores reported their business up 25%. In Memphis and Dallas there were merchants who were rubbing their hands over 50%, increases. Toy buying in Chicago was the best since boom days. And sober estimates last week placed the probable dollar volume of holiday buying 16%, above a year ago and the actual volume of goods abreast...
...nation when that tight little body of scientists met in Cleveland. He shouted an angry tirade against medical scientists who had long scoffed at his chemical conclusions. His philippic delighted the multitudinous foes of organized medicine. It supplied quacks with specious arguments for years to come. And in sober essence it pitted the chemist mind, which elaborates theories from a few invariable facts, against the medical mind, which accepts healing principles only after painstaking weighing of forever varying human factors...