Word: soberness
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Miss Stevenson has certainly done well to give to the English-speaking public such a diverting book, which presents the Court and the chief characters in the Court in their true perspective, without the bias of a La Bruyère, and which contains much sober comment on the depravities of the times, the inefficiency of doctors, and the wantonness of the French attack upon the Rhineland.† Moreover, it escapes the condemnation of reading like a translation, which is the best proof of the good scholarship of the editor and translator...
...bill. From amid the encircling gloom arose Dr. Herbert Hensley Henson, whose style is the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Durham, 86th of those to hold that dignity. The Bishop, so the story ran, "jolted" his fellow Bishops by telling them: "Better a free Britain than a sober one." Such simple, wet words from a leader of the church militant had effect in defeating the bill by 166 to 50 votes. Their dry lordships continued to hold fast to their faith in the bill which they declared was not dead...
...Roberts is a Bolshevikophobe. That is to say, he hates Bolshevism, which is not surprising. He likes the clean-cut, antibureaucratic efficiency of Fascismo. The prejudices are based not upon concrete reasoning but upon temperamental predilections. The sober, nude, crude truth is that a partisan book cannot maintain itself on nebulous foundations of sentiment. Because the author has tried to do this, his book has fallen short of being first-class...
...Chicago Institute of International Politics (TIME, Apr. 21, May 5), scholarly and scientific counterpart of the Williamstown Institute of Politics (held by some to be "popular"), entered into its sober deliberations. Dr. Herbert Kraus, of the University of Königsberg, East Prussia, was active, prominent...
...chief, Lord Spencer, used to refer to him, was a man of staid Scotch qualities: intellectually honest, sober in all respects; a scholar of no mean repute, well-traveled and rich. His mind was practical. In Parliament he was formidable; in the country his speeches were direct, forceful and efficient; but he was no orator, and no man has ever rightly said of him that he was in any sense demagogic. He hated publicity and one of his favorite phrases was: "I don't think we need publish this urbi et orbi." His ability at quoting the classics was remarkable...