Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your Science Editor deserves a stern rebuke for his ignorance of mountebank methods...
...Socialist canton of Geneva expelled them all-some Italian journalists of ten years' standing with families in Geneva. But they received wires of praise from Italy's new Press & Propaganda Secretary Odoardo Dino Alfieri for a Fascist escapade at which the London Times looked down its stern nose thus: "Nothing else was wanting to add the last touch of dignity to one side of the contest and to remove the last traces of it upon the other...
...armed to the teeth in the government steamer Pomeroon. The Girl Pat tried desperately to escape by sail, headed for Venezuela. For nearly three hours the two boats dodged about the ocean while hundreds of spectators lined the shore. Finally the Pomeroon rammed the Girl Pat's stern, sank her tender, forced her to surrender. Cursing loudly, Captain Osborne and his three freebooting cronies were lugged off to jail. There the Inspector General gave one more fillip to the case by stating: "These men are not under detention. They have put themselves under police protection and they will...
...lower Mississippi Valley. Bursting with political pork, the Omnibus bill was passed by the House four days before adjournment last August, filibustered to death in the Senate by Maryland's Tydings. Revived by the floods of last March, it was pared of its local favors by a stern economy order from President Roosevelt. Called by Senator Copeland "the first porkless water bill ever passed in the history of Congress," it requires payment of land and damage costs by States or localities, approval of every project by the War Department's tough-minded Board of Engineers for Rivers & Harbors...
Jimmy had many a brush with the police after that, and some narrow escapes, but they never got him. Meantime he had fallen in love (seriously, this time) with an Indian lass, and she with him. Her stern parent, in view of Jimmy's uncertain social position, frowned on the match, and a blackguard named Montenegro, an even harder case than Jimmy, married the girl. It was a blow to Jimmy but he went his way, dodging the police, smacking other hard cases when they asked for it, gradually adding to his flocks until he was regarded...