Word: stern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...DARK GENTLEMAN-G. B. Stern-Knopf ($2.50). Setting her eye about at the level of the kennel doors at the Casa Lucceola, which is near San Remo on the Riviera, Author Stern relates with considerable finesse certain events that took place there in March, a fortnight or so before the feast of St. Sirius, the Dogstar. . . -. Pekoe and Baloo, the haughty chows from down the hill, were oddly enough the first to wind anything. They told Golden Toes that his mother, Rennie, was looking beautiful and young Toes, sociable no end, repeated the remark at home. Kim, the lean Irish...
From the last verse of ECCLESIASTES to the first of the SONG OF SOLOMON is but an eye-skip across the page. Stern Puritans used to say that Solomon's SONG OF SONGS is a book which Christians had better whistle than recite...
...Like stern proconsuls* of Imperial Rome, four Italian Colonial Governors make almost 2,000,000 natives smart with commands backed by steel. Two† of the four colonies have no native parliaments; and the other two** seemed about to lose theirs last week. At Rome the doom of every sort of native autonomy in Italian Colonies was sealed when Colonial Minister Luigi Federzoni published, last week, the text of a law approved for enactment by Dictator Benito Mussolini...
...themselves to safeguard the morals of the rising generations, a state of affairs on which we of today may look in surprise, when we consider that we allow our national, state, and city governments keep the world clean and safe to live in. This tendency is shown in the stern command which was written of in this account of "the progress of learning in the College of Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay" to the effect that "none shall, under any pretence whatsoever, frequent the company and society of such men as lead an unfit and dissolute life...
...been made clear that such had manners as Senator King displayed are not to be tolerated. Senatorial interference with the noble work that is being done by Secretary Kellog and his marines might lead, if allowed to proceed unchastened, to all manner of trouble. President Coolidge by his stern, courageous shonce, and the Transcript by its clear and righteous indignation have once more come forward to save the country in a life or death situation...