Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When captured, Youth Melgar (who by this time also had a broken arm and a fractured skull in addition to his neck wound; said: "My action was entirely personal." The police, according to Lima newsgatherers, were at first determined to lynch Youth Melgar, desisted only under stern orders from their superiors...
...pressure from any "united front'' presented by the Great Powers last week. Japanese correspondents cabled to Tokyo from Washington that President Hoover and Secretary Stimson had "split" on the Sino-Japanese issue, the President wanting to do nothing and the Secretary of State wanting to write a stern note to Japan. Tokyo, hearing this, accepted the Stimson-to-Borah letter as "proof" that Mr. Hoover had not let Mr. Stimson write to Japan...
...practice no more. Henceforth, ho too, like his father, would command applause from large audiences. Informed of the project, his parent anticipated its execution by apprenticing him to the marine corps band of which he was a member. In order to prevent the reoccurrence of similar fugitive aspirations, a stern officer in full regalia read to the awed stripling a list of imposing regulations. He was informed that any attempt at desertion would be punished by a firing squad at daybreak. The threat sufficed; for two years, John Phillips Sousa remained a fearfully earnest apprentice in the marine corps band...
...hotels the white women were getting scared at last, refused to go to bed, sat in the lobbies hour after hour. To Washington cabled Admiral M. M. Taylor, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet: "The Japanese have been forced to slow down their advance because of stern Chinese opposition...
...Protestant magazine in the U. S. Far from accusing Mr. Wrigley of breaking commandments, The Christian Century hastened to say that "We know nothing particularly damaging about Mr. Wrigley, if he is to be judged in the perspective of contemporary civilization." Nevertheless it took the occasion to point a stern moral...