Word: stern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Therefore stern, close-lipped President-Elect Irigoyen was thoroughly vexed, last week, and perhaps slightly perturbed at the effect which The Road to Buenos Ayres may have upon U. S. friendship for Argentina. None knows better than "Boss" Irigoyen how much truth is in the book; for as a youth he was a Police Captain in Buenos Aires (1873) and later Chief of Police...
Yesterday the Prince spent packing his playthings for some more pleasant intrigue in a different country where the parental authority would not be so very stern. He thought of America, but that was very far away and he wanted to be near his cherished Rumanian throne. France was not particularly friendly; neither was republican Germany: Soviet Russia was not at all to his taste. Some small country was more congenial, and he found the very one in Belgium...
...question of athletics also attracts his notice. Boys have told him that they go to college for athletics. Again the doubtful virtue of indefiniteness weakens the charge. Unless there is a considerable number of such examples, this is scarcely a cause for worry; and stern supervision of intercollegiate sports has to a great extent removed the tramp athlete from universities...
DEBONAIR-G. B. Stern-Knopf ($2.50). Twittering, dove-colored, Mrs. Trevelyan welcomes her daughter, Loveday, back to their little haven on the Italian Riviera, and would so gladly "forgive and forget" if only she would confide...
...contrast to her earlier saga of the Jewish Matriarch's passionate assumption of power, Author Stern now tells the story of an Anglo-Saxon mother's fluttering desire, not for power, but for filial devotion, which is doled out to her spasmodically, and none too generously by a generation impatient of self-sacrifice. With wit and wisdom Miss Stern divides her sympathies, but indulges of course the side of radiant, reckless youth...