Word: sterner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...term as it was applied to such as Edwin Booth and Richard Mansfield, in the U. S. today. He is the financial and artistic force "behind every play shown in the Walter Hampden Theatre on upper Broadway. A beardless patriarch, aged only 48, he follows his profession with perhaps sterner self-discipline but with more self-consciousness than his brothers, Paul, John, and Malcolm, have developed in following their respective professions of painting, law and literature...
...Playhouse is very new, very magnificent for simple Stockbridge. Not even the familiar sculpture of Master Craftsman French and the portraits of the Johansens could altogether take away a sense of strangeness. Colonists, last week, saw Albert Sterner's dramatic Lady Macbeth, the fine portraits by the sisters Emmett: Lydia Field and Leslie. Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman, successor of John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum in chiseling the heroic Stone Mountain relief, showed Vanity, a bronze figure of a woman with a mirror. These were the work of the native colonists...
...Your gifts, transmitted through example and fatherly advice, partook of the sterner qualities, essential in the battle for existence...
Wednesday the regulars pounded the scrub line for five touchdowns and then yesterday afternoon were called upon to put their prowess to the test again. The result was more than an hour and a half of much regulated and much interrupted scrimmaging, with the University backs wading through sterner opposition than they had met the day before for two touchdowns. The score was 14 to 0, but the score meant very little since the location of the ball at the beginning of each offensive drive was determined entirely by the coaches. Anywhere from their own 20 to the Seconds...
...Minister, John Van Antwerp MacMurray made a hurried trip to visit Baron Shidehara in Tokyo, endeavoring to convince the Japanese Foreign Minister of the soundness of his own views. What they said was naturally privy to themselves; but Mr. MacMurray is widely believed to favor much sterner measures toward China than are approved by President Coolidge; and consequently Baron Shidehara almost certainly was obliged to assume his most courteous, most waxlike smile...