Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...check two names on the list of candidates; the nominee receiving the greatest number of votes will gain the Presidency, while the runner-up will become vice-President. The nominees are: William H. Daughaday, Langdon B. Gilkey, Robert J. Glaser, Nelson Miles, Thomas H. E. Quimby, Joseph S. Stern, Jr., and Benjamin Wilcox...
Packed with drama and feeling, Lillian Hellman's plays meet their grim situations headon. A moralist, not a misanthrope, Playwright Hellman ferrets out evil and malice not to wallow in them but to flay them alive. Witty, sociable, personally far from stern, Lillian Hellman is happiest while lazing through an amphibian summer on an island off Connecticut, with such friends as Dorothy Parker (who suggested the title for The Little Foxes), Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Kober. But today, awake to the troubled world around her, Lillian Hellman loafs seldom. Militantly antifascist, she two years ago spent a month under bombardment...
...eight candidates are as follows: William H. Daughaday, chairman of the Library Committee; Langdon B. Gilkey, Senior Advisory Committee; Robert J. Glasser, Social Service Committee; Nelson Miles, Social Service work: Thomas H. E. Quimby, chairman of the Mission Committee; Joseph S. Stern, Social Service Committee; and Benjamin Wilcox, chairman of the Speakers' Committee...
...August morning in 1937, Inspector Norman R. Arthur was patrolling the harbor of Honolulu looking for violators of the Federal law against dumping garbage into U. S. waters. Around 10 o'clock, as he eased his motor sampan under the overhanging stern of the Dollar Steamship Lines steamer, President Coolidge, he obtained first-hand evidence. A Chinese mess boy leaned over the rail and dumped a pail of swill, "cabbage, orange peel, celery, tea leaves and water," squarely on Inspector Arthur's head...
Well, they all lived with Vag and he didn't pay much attention to any of them, especially during the football season. But Gregory and Phil were stern fellows and Vag was really a little afraid of them. So he saw that they were comfortable and did little favors for them now and then...