Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news of China had a somber, almost majestic sameness. Again the dispatches told of Jap advances, Chinese retreat, threatened disaster (see WORLD BATTLE-FRONTS). Again Chinese spokesmen pleaded for aid. Again the U.S. Government replied with a tribute. Vice President Wallace, leaving Chungking, left behind a message from President Roosevelt to Chiang Kaishek: "The stand which your people have made against the forces of aggression has set an example for all the friends of China...
...Saddle & Sirloin is a luncheon club whose members still enjoy the best that the war has left them of their club's world-famed steaks. The club also owns the world's greatest collection of meat tycoons' portraits. On its somber, paneled walls hang some 240 sumptuously framed, vigorously extroverted, mostly three-quarter-length portraits of the biggest breeders, killers, packers, meat sellers in the history of U.S. beef...
...newspaper of Hitler's Elite Guard, Das Schwarze Korps, testified in a full-page editorial to a drastic change of heart among traditionally war-worshiping Germans. Pictures of somber, tight-lipped German soldiers illustrated Das Schwarze Korps' exhortation...
...Raphael's famed portrait of the powerful, crafty Florentine ruler, Giuliano de' Medici. This somber classic Italian Renaissance masterpiece disappeared for three centuries, was rediscovered in Florence in 1867, was sold to the Russian Imperial family, cost Collector Bache...
Died. Dr. Jose Ignacio de Rivero y Alonso ("Pepin"), 49, editor and publisher of Cuba's oldest (1832) and most famous newspaper, the Havana Diario de la Marina; after long illness; in Vibora, Cuba. Somber, handsome Rivero, although a reactionary himself, in 1930 bitterly criticized the bloody-reactionary Machado regime, dodged its conspiracy and sedition charges by visiting the U.S. In 1934 he was machine-gunned by would-be assassins for forming the nationalistic afirmación Nacional party. In 1936 he blasted the Spanish loyalists, in 1941 was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot prize in journalism by Columbia...