Word: soberness
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...most general display of interest on the part of students for some years. Many of the letters received have not seemed to shed any new light on the affairs of English 72 and of the English Department in general, but the two letters printed in an adjacent column are sober enough to warrant consideration...
...biography of Afric blood and thunder which the old man is said to have "dictated" (TIME, June 27). Throughout the week, Mr. Smith wandered like a puzzled Rip Van Winkle through a series of functions at which he, in contrast to most of the literati present, was creditably sober...
...instructed in the art, science or habit of prohibition. It seems that an education law of twenty-five years ago first made provision that prohibition should play a part in the life of every school child, to the obvious and praiseworthy end that he might become an intelligent and sober minded citizen...
...very nature of an educational convention, with its fleeting luncheons and dinners and myriad speeches on everything from the automobile library to the little red schoolhouse, is a denial of sober and detailed consideration of a problem. Likewise doubtful in value are conferences of college and secondary school executives, where partisan speechmaking soon resolves the parley into the polite immobility of a disarmament conference...
...Story magazine, kingpin of Bernarr Macfadden's confession group (True Romances, True Experiences, Dream World). Boasting of "the largest newsstand sale in the world," more than 2,000,000 a month, True Story sets the fashion in sex yarns. In May 1919, its first issue appeared with some sober items about Elsie Ferguson, Billie Burke, William S. Hart, Douglas Fair banks. But the meat of the magazine was confession fiction. Of these stories, six contained attempted seductions, three contained successful seductions. A successful one was described as follows: "His kisses intoxicated me. Everything seemed to slip away...