Word: sterner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maxfield Parrish, Rockwell Kent, Albert Sterner, Tony Sarg, Arthur B. Davies, George W. Bellows, Robert Henri, William and Margaret Zorach are among the artists who have been asked to enter in a competition for a "peace Christmas card" to foster international cooperation to prevent war, under the auspices of the National League of Women Voters. The best design will be chosen in January by a committee including Charles Dana Gibson, Joseph Pennell, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. Three prizes of $500 to $2,500 will be awarded. The card will be put on sale for Christmas...
...Mark Kent is wonderful as a brow-beaten, nervous wreck, while Viola Roach, as Mrs. Valentine, is convincing in her indication of how his ruin was accomplished. Except in her sterner moments, Miss Roach's very laugh causes one's hair to stand on end; how Walter Gilbert and Edward Dauney, who are Mr. Paradee and the lawyer, respectively, manage to conceal their agony, and in fact, actually seem to enjoy her fooleries is miraculous. Everything must be forgiven, however, for Mr. Kent's sake. He is not the only good thing about "Rose Briar" by a long shot...
International tennis will also take a feminine angle during the coming season. American women tennis players are to compete abroad for European titles, and it is hoped that English women players and possibly those of other nations will compete in the United States. For the sterner sex, a representative foreign entry is assured for the Men's National Championship to be held at the Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia, beginning September 10th. This is due indirectly to the Davis Cup play...
...seconds the splendid hall seethed like hell's own kitchen. The few police were power-less-what could mere men do? More were hurried to the spot without effect, until finally firemen were appealed to to quiet burning Scotland, and with a double cordon of the sterner sex-firmly established, the election continued to its end when, as in a recent Mexican affair, "not much blooded was reported...
...sterner test was in wait for the Crimson the following week. The strong and speedy Holy Cross eleven came down from Worcester determined to break the University's no defeat record. True they were outweighed to a man, but what they lacked in weight, they made up in aggressiveness. Being forced back to their own seven-yard line and extended to the limit by their lighter opponents, the redjerseyed players barely nosed out a 3-0 victory when Buell sent the pigskin over the bars from the 37-yard line. By holing on their seven-yard line Coach Fisher...