Word: soberness
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...other places has started to become a bit tiresome. Unfortunately the speakeasy, like the fox at the hunt, doesn't stand a chance, but the plan is a laudable effort to keep alive one of our finest national sports. And in twenty miles there is plenty of time to sober...
...Nightingales is written in a quiet blank verse. As befits the reminiscent, sometimes conversational manner, the language is keyed low, but it has a subtle tension which gradually accumulates its tragic effect. There are few memorable, marmoreal phrases, none that would sound out of place in a sober and serious colloquy. Occasionally this quiet phrasing has a bite in it which louder words somehow lack. Nightingale is telling Malory how he ruined him by not giving him warning to sell stock he knew was going to crash...
Hero Casanova Jones, "a gentleman sober, a gentleman blotto," is a Prohibition agent whose wife runs a speakeasy. Beautiful but thick Annabel Cloy imagines herself a poet, and is overjoyed when Casanova, pretending to be a publisher, says he will print her Poems of Passion, is enraged when she discovers his duplicity. From this out, the plot becomes more and more revue-worthy. In the end Casanova, in a vain attempt to regain Annabel's affections, goes deliberately to jail by selling liquor on the street. His example becomes popular...
Once famed for its nightly swarm of bums staggering from one swinging door to another, Manhattan's Bowery has been a comparatively sober thoroughfare since Prohibition. The bums have been lounging in speakeasies, drugstores, paintshops where "smoke" (colored, usually poisonous, alcohol) could be purchased for 15? the glass, 50? the pint. Last week the Bowery bums were on the street again, pitifully wandering, finding neither swinging doors nor "holes in the wall...
...knowledge of and with acquiescence of their faculty. At Harvard, drinking is by no means considered a crime by the dean's office, and action is never taken unless the drinking leads to something for which the undergraduate would be punished for even if he led a strictly sober life--i.e., bad marks, disrupting influence, acts of extreme physical violence...