Word: stern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Learned with ejaculations of surprise that rich, stern-hearted Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver has at length decided to aid in a peculiar manner the penniless widow and son of one Captain Walter Hinchliffe, who was lost while attempting to fly the Atlantic with Lord Inchcape's daughter, the Hon. Elsie Mackay. Unwilling to aid Widow Hinchliffe directly, Viscount Inchcape placed ?10,000 ($48,700) at the disposal and "absolute discretion" of Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, last week, with the request he administer it in such manner as to alleviate "any complaint by other sufferers from the disaster...
Left behind at Paris, with many a tourist for company, was stern, meticulous, tireless Minister of Justice Louis Barthou, who "never takes a vacation...
...that he is expected to immortalize his name rounding out a fecund cycle bounded by Six Points: 1) "Immutable maintainance of the present level of stabilization (i lira equals $.0526)." 2) Total curtailment of foreign borrowing by the State, plus drastic censorship of private Italian loan flotations abroad. 3) Stern coercion of Italian tax evaders and delinquents, "who are the vilest leeches sucking the blood of human society." 4) "Resolute avoidance of any increase in taxation." 5) "Introduction of the most crystalline simplicity and clarity in all state accounts, so that each citizen, without the aid of metaphysics of accounting...
...Helen G. Bell, daughter of the Elena's owner, wrote a seaworthy account of the voyage for the New York Times. She told of one rough afternoon and night: "The ship heeled over until the lee rail was awash and now and then as she shipped seas over the stern the water raced down the scuppers. "When I turned in for the night the sky was covered with ominous black clouds. The sea seemed infinitely large, while our little boat had shrunk in size since we left New York. At 4:30 a. m. heavy squalls struck us unexpectedly with...
Hjalmar Schacht, stern President of the German Reichsbank...