Word: soberness
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Retorted Mr. Ford: "We don't allow drinking in any of our foreign factories. That's the trouble with people from New York. They don't think anybody is sober...
Playwright MacOwan's somewhat misapplied earnestness is ably abetted by Actor Banks, whose moral austerity and quirks of personality convincingly reek of heather. Actress Menken's husky voice has always been effective when sober things were being spoken; she still achieves miracles of makeup which make her seem almost beautiful. One of the season's most extraordinary moments occurs when, as a barefoot invalid, she extends her foot toward the audience and spreads and wiggles her toes with astounding flexibility...
Since the first of January, the Journal has carried not less than a half-page a day crammed with news characteristically bold-stroked, free-swinging and Hearstian. As a result of its findings, the sober element of Atlantic citizenry have banded together, led by the Chamber of Commerce, to run Mayor Anthony M. Ruffu Jr. and his henchmen out of town...
...trend that sooner or later is bound to become dominant in American colleges. Prohibition has so enormously increased the emphasis on drinking as a part of the extra-curricular activity that a revulsion is already in embryo. In the future sobriety will come into vogue; the advantages of the sober or partially, sober over the obviously influenced will obtain due publicity; and the prom-trotter of tomorrow will no longer be forced to battle against an intoxication more sure though less subtle than that induced by her natural talents. The Michigan authorities are to be congratulated for so neatly nipping...
...Young Gentlemen, at Ealing, he was considered an impressive speaker, and "was selected to deliver a speech before the Duke of Kent. The boy's voice had just then begun to break, and though he persevered with his speech, it was more like a yodelling performance than a sober oration. The Doctor in some embarrassment . . . explained apologetically, 'His voice is breaking.' 'Ah,' replied the Duke, 'but the action was good.' " At 15, Newman became an undergraduate of Trinity College, Oxford, and disappointed everybody by breaking down in his examinations. He had overworked; for 20 weeks before the "schools" (finals...