Word: sterner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...esthetic followers of "art for art's sake," Henley's boisterous, often crude vitality seemed both stupid and frightening. Esthete Aubrey Beardsley was so terrified by his first glimpse of the "pirate" that he turned and ran for his life. Arch-esthete Oscar Wilde was made of sterner stuff. In a scathing review of Henley's hospital poems (whose occasional beauties, said Oscar, were "very refreshing [bits] of affectation in a volume where there is so much that is natural"), he opened a running fight with Henley that lasted nearly 20 years. The fight ended indecisively...
...final mark of sterner days to come, Major General Thomas A. Terry, of the Second Service Command, announced that G.I.s and officers liberated from prison camps in Germany would be assigned to operate prison camps in New York, New Jersey and Delaware...
Earlier, in his spare time, he had written fiction (mostly about crooked politicians), and also, under a nom de plume (A. V. Hendrick), the words for a song honoring Movie Queen Bebe Daniels (Bebe, Bebe, Bebe, Be Mine), whose father lived in Grand Rapids. Now he turned to sterner stuff. Alexander Hamilton had long been his hero; he wrote three books about him. (Lodge had also written a biography of Hamilton.) The books are largely forgotten, and Senator Vandenberg is glad they are. But the inscription in one is a characteristic example of how faithfully Vandenberg represented, as he still...
...less so, have kept a fairly sleek look by holding down new subscriptions, boiling some of the fat out of their features, saying a reluctant no to many advertisers. Last week, facing a 5% cut in newsprint inventories for the next quarter, some U.S. newspapers were driven to sterner measures...
...Hasty Heart (by John Patrick; produced by Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse) adds up-or rather, whittles down -to a very interesting evening. In sterner and more skillful hands, this tale of the thawing out of a man who locked the bitter herbs of loneliness in the ice of pride could have been an impressive play...