Word: soberness
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...heroine who associates with them in order to learn about her husband's extra-marital amusements. She (Linda Watkins) sub-leases the apartment which her husband has provided for his mistress. While he and the mistress (Greta Nissen) are abroad, she falls in love with a sober-sided young mining tycoon. When her husband comes home, she decides after a brief period of reluctance to go to California. The mining man (John Boles) is the one who sees her off at the station. All this is competently enough put together but, if tested by an emotional seismograph like...
...Critic Flexner, a onetime Carnegie Foundation expert, onetime (1925-28) director of the division of studies and medical education of the Rockefeller General Education Board, specially denounced Columbia and the University of Chicago for their widely advertised home-study courses. Dr. Flexner's ideal college is a sober academe where only the wisest and most serious may study. Under his direction such a place will soon rise in New Jersey: the Institute for Advanced Study, built with $5,000,000 given by retired Storekeeper Louis Bamberger and his sister Mrs. Felix Fuld. From this, Dr. Flexner's chief...
...worst sense of the word. It is not adult to hold politics in such contempt; it is not adult to appeal through popular names on the letter-head and cheap publicity; it is not adult to start out with a bang and to accomplish nothing. Until the Crusaders sober down there are may better ways to dispose of a dollar, this year of all years. J. B. Jackson...
...Howe, a cultured Canadian gentleman who walks with a painful limp, served the Eagle for 38 years. In 1915 he succeeded the late famed Dr. St. Clair McKelway as editor, made a creditable but unspectacular record. Dr. Howe will continue to write Eagle editorials at his home. Editor Rodgers, sober & industrious, has a good editor's capacity for indignation. He is well known for his books on Walt Whitman, who edited the Eagle...
...income tax during the years 1924-28, had decided he feloniously "attempted to evade & defeat" payment during three of those years. Now he was to be sentenced. As a concession to the solemnity of the occasion he had left off his jewelry, was wearing a comparatively sober pinchback suit of blue. He fondled a bandaged right fore-(trigger)-finger, sucked and sucked on his coughdrop...