Word: soberness
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...Harrison. The important part he will play in the leadership of the new Democratic Senate has done much to sober Pat Harrison and tighten his loose-hitched tongue. At 51 he has become almost owlish under the prospective burdens of statesmanship. The great lung capacity he first developed as a barefoot boy hawking the Memphis Appeal & Avalanche about the dusty streets of his native Crystal Springs, Miss, seems to have deserted him. He still makes windy speeches outside Washington about "mah countree" and views Republican doings with "amaze-munt" but he is no longer the Senate's loudest...
...principle is calculated to dampen the kerchiefs of high school damsels and police commissioners. There is Nancy Carroll swatting somebody or other behind the ear with a pretty green statue of September Morn, there is Cary Grant rigged out in the yachting costume of an Argentine cowboy, there are sober extras in the middle of a three-day cruise, there are finger print experts smearing powder on beige telephones, there are twenty-eight kisses, and a corpse. One reacts, of course, to the ingenuity of the "howler," somehow reminiscent of that cornet next door. But aside from this, no Kerr...
...Indeed!" When sober, cold-water-shaven Adolf Hitler turned up for the third historic time at the President's Palace last week, he found Old Paul all smiles and spruce Colonel von Papen ready to pop the question: "Will you, Herr Reichspräsident, entrust Herr Hitler with a mandate to form a Cabinet...
Meanwhile in San Francisco last week life was made miserable for Gracie Allen's real brother George who was neither missing, daft nor disreputable but simply a sober, honest clerk for Standard...
...Reynolds family at Winston-Salem. The Cannon textile mills were founded by James Cannon who started out as a clerk in a Concord, N. C. general store just after the Civil War. Old James Cannon had five sons, four of them given to jollity and excesses, one given to sober industry. He willed his textile mills to his sober youngest son. Charles A. Cannon proved the wisdom of this move by running them so ably that in 1918 the U. S. soldiers who were smoking Camel cigarets were drying themselves with Cannon towels embroidered with such fiery legends...