Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Erring Woman. The elders of Islam decided it was time to put the women in their place. From the Council of Ulemas of Al Azhar University, the supreme court of Islamic law, recently came a stern fatwa (Koranic interpretation) of the 1,3OO-year-old teachings of the Prophet Mohammed. The Koran's references to women, said the fatwa, clearly bar the 150,000,000 women of the Islamic world from voting and from holding public office. Allah gave this commandment because women are too influenced by their feelings and affections in making judgments; they are addicted to "straying...
...capital. Soon he was providing equipment for candymaking plants, dusty tobacco factories, textile mills, the film industry and hotels.' Not till the Depression did Cloud Wampler appear on the scene. Wampler, a Knox College (Ill.) graduate, was a successful investment banker with Chicago's Lawrence Stern & Co., specializing in real estate; one of his tenants in Chicago was Carrier Corp. When Carrier, hard hit by hard times, asked for a rent reduction Wampler coldly replied that the company needed a lot more than that. He became financial adviser to Carrier, and a company director in 1934; seven years...
...went out to customers last week with not a picture of a live model in it, except on the cover and in the millinery section. Dresses, coats and sweaters were hung on headless, armless and legless dummies ; stockings were draped over a disembodied hand. Reason: Montgomery Ward's stern Chairman Sewell Avery does not want a customer's attention diverted by a pretty girl...
...textbooks, McGuffey presented an ambitious package: reading material for children of all ages, a fine anthology of old favorites, and a stern, explicit code of morals. Before they finally faded from U.S. schools in the early 1900s, the six Eclectic Readers and the Eclectic Spelling Book (edited by Brother Alexander McGuffey) sold some 130 million copies, probably had more influence on U.S. literary tastes and moral standards than any other book except the Bible...
...Labor M.P. crouching naked in a willow tree, with 40 Scottish housewives prancing below and screeching: "Come doon, ye mangy tod, and I'll buff your beef!"? Why does a stern Presbyterian minister stand by waving a two-handed sword and bellowing: "There is a harvest still, a harvest of thistles and of tares, for the sword of Gideon...