Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow!" Foremost to cry "This is the work of Reds!" was His Majesty's new Home Secretary, stern Sir John Gilmour, a Scottish veteran of the Boer and World wars. Scot Gilmour told the House of Commons that "about 10,000 persons attacked the police who, despite great provocation, acted with admirable restraint." The whole thing was organized, Sir John said, by the National Unemployed Workers Movement. "That movement, if such it can be called," he cried, "has a material connection with Moscow...
When Senator George William Norris of Nebraska opened his speaking tour for Governor Roosevelt in Philadelphia's Metropolitan Opera House last week, his voice was to be broadcast. Somebody blundered. The Senator spoke into dead microphones. Next day Publisher Julius David Stern's Philadelphia Record shrieked with an eight-column banner: THE RADIO FAILED! FULL TEXT OF SENATOR NORRIS' SPEECH IN THIS NEWSPAPER...
...Flexner's broad assertions concerning American students. Broadly aimed flank attacks of this kind upon the universities and colleges of a nation soon fall to pieces if the writer's assertions are rigidly tested. Mr. Flexner can however be satisfied that he has given the educational system a stern diagnosis and criticism that is necessary for the continued health of the academic body...
Perhaps because facilities are lacking to use most of Dnieprostroy's giant power, Dictator Josef Stalin, stern realist, stayed away from the "successful opening." From Moscow he wired: DETAINED BY WORK...
Director Josef von Sternberg wrote the story, quit Paramount and took Miss Dietrich with him when the story was rewritten, later returned to direct her in it. Von Sternberg, who has repeatedly denied being born Joe Stern in Brooklyn, opens with a sylvan swimming scene in Germany's Black Forest (300 miles from Berlin) where U. S. hikers surprise Berlin actresses off for the afternoon. One hiker (Herbert Marshall) marries Marlene Dietrich, takes her to the U. S. They have a child. Marshall contracts radium poisoning in his scientific research. To send him to a Dresden doctor, Marlene returns...