Word: stern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chieftains in other respects; both occupied themselves in changing the facades of the social structure they ruled from Oriental to Occidental. Mustapha's literary proclivities lean toward the perusal of German military memoirs. Yet he knows that he reads nothing that transcends his own life. His stern rotogravure face must sometimes be wreathed in smiles, as he laughs at the world behind its back...
...alone) were: 1) That, contrary to the assumptions of Dr. Albert Einstein, there is an all pervasive substance in the universe through which all matter moves; 2) That this substance, ether, has a motion imparted to it by moving matter (a motion similar to that of water following the stern of a moving ship). In the case of the earth, the ether is subject to a 95% drag, but slips away again 50%; 3) That the whole solar galaxy (group of planets) is moving toward the constellation of the Dragon at a rate of 120 miles a second. The significance...
THUNDER ON THE LEFT?Christopher Morley?Doubleday, Page ($2). It is a children's party, Martin's tenth birthday. The imaginative little fellow invents all sorts of games for his guests: "Stern Parent," "Quarrelsome Children." Then Phyllis, one of the girls, says that grown-ups have a wonderful time. Wouldn't it be nice to be grown up? Martin has an idea for another game, "Spies"?to find out whether grown-ups really have a good time, so as to know whether one wants ever to be grown...
Alas! such was not the case. That appointment, if it had ever been made, would have changed the history of the world. Gladstone never was able to estimate Chamberlain's true worth. You will remember that Macaulay writes of Gladstone as one of those "stern and unbending Tories." Macaulay was right. Gladstone was an aristocrat by birth. It was just as true of him as any other human being that "environment will never totally eradicate the taint of heredity...
Twice the Finance Committee of the Chamber proclaimed by heavy adverse votes that the only clause of the Loucheur bill which would ever reach the Chamber was the relatively unimportant article proposing stern punishments for income tax dodgers. Thus rebuffed Loucheur kissed the rod to the extent of asking the Committee what sort of proposal it would endorse. The Committee haughtily took the almost unprecedented course of refusing to offer any suggestions whatever, and M. Loucheur was forced to resign as Finance Minister- admittedly a beaten...