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...blood-chilling scream as she was pushed to her death in an icy black lake. Yet as the heroine of Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mzensk (pronounced Muhzjensk), the woman responsible for these three atrocious murders was really a gentle soul whom only the sternest moralist would blame for her crimes...
...none made by Congress, stand quot; the test of the doctrine of "strictly limited" delegation of legislative authority? Senator King of Utah sounded the mildest note of "Beware!" when he declared that the decision would be wholesome because it would make Congress "have due regard to Constitutional limitations." Sternest bewarist was Senator Borah who cried...
...Legion gave him an uproariously warm welcome. Donning an overseas cap to show his membership in the organization, he stepped up amid a cyclone of cheers to the same Stadium rostrum where 15 months prior he had accepted the Presidential nomination. His easy manner, his smiling charm softened his sternest critic in an audience of 30,000. He drew loud laughter when he interjected: "My, you're a young looking bunch.'' National credit based on national unity was the theme of his speech. In defense of his pension cuts he declared...
...Dreyfus case, the War, supplied fresh excuses to the writers for not deciphering that book?they wished to assure the triumph of right, rebuild the moral unity of the nation, and they had no time to think of literature. . . . But ... art is the most real of all things, the sternest school in life and truly the 'Last Judg- ment...
...prisons must be built in Nyland [recently renamed Usimaa], and in every other Finnish province!" he declared, went on to demand new asylums, more enforcement agents. But, after pledging himself to continue sternest measures, "Black Jalander" concluded...