Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wagner?"petty treason" is too harsh a term. But you raise an interesting question, the old conflict between heart & head?and who has ever been able to decide between them? True, Col. Lindbergh had the opportunity o; showing a front as grim as any stern old Roman, to whom the life of a son counted as nothing against the fair fame of his State. Such a man might say: "A child is only a child?one may have many children?but bright Justice shall not be prostituted to the dark gods of the under-world...
...stern museum guard barred the way. They appealed to Curator Herbert B. Tschudy. He was polite but firm: they could copy almost anything else in the Museum, provided the copies were only of parts of pictures-but not the Sargents and Homers. When the Museum bought its Sargents from the bearded Bostonian, it promised that his water colors should never be copied...
...foreign affairs he is a stern nationalist who opposed the London Naval Treaty and the Debt Moratorium. To international questions he gives profound study. Unlike most isolationists, he likes to travel abroad, form his opinion by direct observation...
...difficult to predict the outcome of the bouts, since there are always 'dark hourses' from the graduate schools who have had previous experience. The members of the University team who ought to provide stern opposition to any graduates are closely matched among themselves, and give reason for belief that they will exclude nearly all outsiders from the finals...
...array of carved and brightly painted Moorish ceilings, Bristol-board flagstones, marble columns painted on cerulean blue walls, and wrought-iron Venetian lamps, which decorate its lavishly gilded Italian interior. Russell Hall, happily but belatedly removed, has given way to a successor which calls to mind the stern lines of a frontier block-house. At least there is architectural variety...