Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...epic was written in the turgid waters of the Charles yesterday when a fighting Dunster crew went down to defeat under the stern of a Winthrop shell. Although a classic in itself, this event is important as the first in a long and happy series. Another cog has been ground in the ratchet of tradition...
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill can afford to relax his stern face occasionally and smile on life. Equipped with proven genius, he is comparatively a young man. Money rolls in from Strange Interlude, still on the road. The kudos he has received may be only a sample of what is to come. Above all a living writer, he looks steadfastly to the future, scorns any present estimate of his work, explains: "It seems to me that there is too damned much of that sort of thing being done in America...
...Premier? No one had the slightest objection. Dead tired Deputies rested their raw throats, their heaving lungs. Amid utter silence Spain's new Chief Executive was chosen unanimously (the 50 pious clericals remaining absent). Up the steps of the Assembly Tribune at once climbed President Azana, brisk and stern. Jerking a paper from his waistcoat pocket he read out his new Cabinet...
...ground crew. a noisy chorus of tooting horns from the automobiles on the hillsides as the Akron, unleashed for the first time, slowly rises as a free balloon, the blue flag of the Secretary of the Navy hanging from her control car, the U. S. ensign flapping at her stern. At about 500 ft. the two stern engines are started and the ship plows slowly into the west wind. Two more engines, then two more, until all eight Maybachs are driving the Akron over Portage Lakes and over the city of Akron where flowers are dropped upon the city hospital...
...lantern-swinging grounds men. A smoke candle is lighted to show the direction of the ground wind. Presently there is a drone of engines from the east, then the wink of two white bow lights, two green starboard lights, two red port lights, flashing rhythmically. (There are white stern lights too.) The ship comes in low, hesitates, reconsiders, flies on and returns a few minutes later. Searchlights and floodlights are switched on. The Akron hovers cautiously low, drops landing lines which are seized by the ground crew who "run away" with them to check the ship's momentum. When...