Word: soberness
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Already he was developing his faculty for meeting and making friends with great men. Sober-faced Will Rothenstein was as thrilled at chatting with Degas, dining at the Cafe Royal with Oscar Wilde, going to the Moulin Rouge with Toulouse-Lautrec, as a young U. S. executive might be at lunching with Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell or Albert Wiggin. After four years in Paris he was sent to Oxford to do a series of portraits of famed Oxonians. Wrote his friend Max Beerbohm...
Republican Rage. Whether the Morgan Loan is enough to stabilize the peseta permanently or not, it was an unmistakable sign that sober foreign financiers believe in the permanency of King Alfonso's throne enough to lend...
...went great sighs of bondholders' relief as Dr. Luther observed at Leipzig in his sober, careful...
...They allow the eaters and drinkers at the party to pick out the man who is paying the bills and prevent mistaking him for the butler. The latter advantage is not important, because the butler may usually be recognized by his expression of concentrated intelligence, and is nearly always sober." Mr. Brisbane then drew a line under this sally and began anew: "Herbert [Bayard] Swope had this 'host-coat' idea long ago, wearing an evening suit of beautiful claret-colored damask. Why, no one knew. In his house there can't be any mistake about the host...
...Last week the 107 Fascists, plus 41 Nationalists and a hand ful of Agrarians marched out of the Reichstag in disgust muttering dark threats of forming a "rump parliament" of their own at Weimar, scene of the writing and adoption of Germany's present Constitution, which Fascists hate. Sober Germans did not take the Weimar Parliament threat too seriously...