Word: stern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that particular argument is significant. Time was, not many years ago, when American educators for the most part spoke of the long vacations at Oxford and Cambridge, with only slightly hidden disdain. These institutions, it was implied, were only easy going country clubs on opening anyway, compared to the stern standards of American and Tenionic teaching, and the long vacations were merely characteristic of the English students propensity for idling. But in more recent years, chiefly since the war, a new view has been evident. An uneasy feeling has grown up in the United States, based upon actual observation, that...
...royal face, small, round and rosy, peeped from a window in the stern facade of Buckingham Palace one morning last week. Out the palace gate was clattering a coach of gilt and glass. Above it the three golden genii of England, Scotland and Ireland supported replicas of the Crown, the Sceptre, the Sword of State and the emblems of knighthood. Within the coach rode awfully the King-Emperor and the Queen-Empress...
Wailing, he caused the howling cur to be led before him. A stern judge, he sentenced the ear-eating canine to fast for two days. Weeping, he cried: "Oh, sinful dog, how do I know that mine own father may not have transmigrated into thee? Lest I punish him in thee for this sin, I will fast with thee these two days...
...year old son?" was the request in the dulcet tones of a fond but foolish mother. He is very mischievous and misbehaved, and I simply can't do a thing with him. Do you think it a good idea to put him on a boat under a stern old sea captain all summer and not permit him to land...
...policy in Nicaragua, however, Mr. Kellogg issued a stern statement: "From the beginning of the trouble a year ago, the United States has offered its good offices and exerted its influence to compose the difficulty. The same attitude has existed ever since Diaz was elected president, nor is any change contemplated...