Word: soberness
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...Cold-sober in Philadelphia, His Excellency ably lashed the Great Powers thus: "There is a tendency to look down upon Japan as un enfant gāté [spoiled child] who may run amuck at any moment. The argument too often falls upon Japanese ears in this manner: If we have the ratio of 10, we will always behave, but if you [Japan] have more than 6 or 7 it is highly probable that you will go astray.' Does not that sound too much like asserting moral superiority? It is something which Japanese susceptibility cannot tolerate. It is something...
Luis Quintanilla, 39, muralist, etcher, humanist and Spanish Republican, held his first one-man show in the U. S. last week. Pierre Matisse was his sponsor, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos his patrons and apologists. On the sober walls of the Matisse Gallery 39 of Quintanilla's etchings were lined up, all handsomely mounted and glassed. Critics, collectors, and ladies in long mink coats all hurried up to see them. But Luis Quintanilla was not excited. In Madrid behind the bars of the Central Prison he was fighting for his life...
...turned against them, cornered the supply of muskets and shut themselves into a stockade. The male survivor of this Lysistratian war was finally reconciled, became the patriarch-consort of the island. When a Yankee ship put in to Pitcairn's Island in 1808, the little colony was Godfearing, sober, prolific. They had never heard of the French Revolution or the Napoleonic Wars, but most of them were happy...
...Samuel II (1851) and Samuel III (1878). When Samuel III ("Sambo") died in 1915 the printers quit singing about "young Sam Bowles." It was evident that Samuel IV would never become "old Sam Bowles" to the staff. A rollicking, roving reporter, he did not get along with his sober, thoughtful father, spent little time on the Republican. Hence "Sambo" left control of his newspaper to his favorite younger son, Sherman Hoar Bowles...
...father of Florence, the drug addict, was a sober Yankee livery stable manager. Her mother, a neurotic, took morphine. Florence fell in love with the son of the Jewish owner of the department store where she clerked. Their prolonged, secret engagement was honorable and nerve-wracking. Secretly they were married. Following an abortion, Florence picked up her mother's morphine habit. Florence ran away from her husband, bigamously married a second, divorced No. 1 and married a third. No. 3 left her when he discovered that she was a drug addict and, between drug spells, a drunkard...