Word: stern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tsar Cyril." Unlike most expounders of Spirituality, the Grand Duke Alexander turns readily to crisp and factual themes. As he paced toweringly about his hotel drawing-room, last week, it was not hard to see him as once he was, as the stern quarterdecker, "The Admiral of the Fleet" to Tsar Nicholas the Last...
...partner, Schurman, Wiley & Willcox, New York; 1923. James M. Nicely, second vice president, National Bank of Commerce, New York; 1924, Warren S. Ege, associate in Davis, Severance & Morgan, St. Paul; 1925, Robert G. Page, associate in Root, Clark, Buckner, Howland & Ballantine; 1926, David F. Cavers, associate in Rushmore, Bisbee & Stern, New York; 1927, Henry J. Friendly, associate in Root, Clark, Buckner, Howland & Ballantine; 1928, Erwin N. Griswold, assistant to Professor Austin W. Scott, Harvard Law School. This year's President is Herman Thomas Austern...
Exactly the opposite stand was taken by President Hipolito Irigoyen of Argentina. Though besought by Woodrow Wilson to declare war on Germany, and though beseeched by his own Senate and Chamber of Deputies to do so, stern Dr. Irigoyen kep Argentina out of war. Recently grateful Argentines re-elected him President, while Woodrow Wilson lies discredited and dead, and Wenceslao Braz has been thoroughly forgotten...
...millions. Seldom indeed does a country's principal boom 17000% in less than a decade! Still more interesting, if possible, is the fact, that Venezuela's stupendous oil tax revenues all pour into the Treasury of one man, an absolute dictator of 20 years' standing, the stern and venerable President Juan Vicente Gomez...
Alone among the newspapers the tabloid Daily News (biggest circulation in the U. S.) vented its wrath in a stern editorial, betrayed the liveliest inferiority complex. It baited Messrs. Morgan & Morrow with representing both the U. S. and Wall Street in Mexico, and climaxed: "By such toplofty behavior Mr. Morgan only got himself into a scene where he had not been invited, and called attention in a most awkward and public manner to the close business connections between himself, Miss Morrow's father and the United States government...