Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bases of their spines. Present were General Guido Cristini, President of the Facist Supreme Special Tribunal for the Defense of the State, and his fellow judges. This was their third execution, the Death sentence having been revived in Italy for crimes against the State in 1927. With set, stern Facist faces they watched until 5:43 a. m. when the rifles cracked out shots in the back-Italy's idea of a supremely disgraceful Death. Throughout Jugoslavia, where Il Duce is detested as the National Enemy, furious indignation was roused by news that the Facist garrison commander at Trieste...
Alone at the stern of his yacht Sabalo steaming from New York Harbor toward Chesapeake Bay one evening last week, sat Van Lear Black, publisher of the Baltimore Suns,? puffing an after-dinner cigaret. He was perched upon the after-railing?his favorite stance, against which others were forever cautioning...
Teenie Weenie. Still profiting from the fad-of-the-land last week were the owners of Tom Thumb Golf courses (TIME, July 14, Aug. 11). But a new rival arose. Advertised Stern Brothers, Manhattan department store: "Play on your own lawn. . . . Teenie Weenie Lawn Golf . . . the new game sensation...
With 137 seats out of a possible 245 and a clear majority over all political parties, the Conservative party ousted Canadian Liberals from their nine-year roost fortnight ago. Last week stern-jowled Richard Bedford Bennett, Prime Minister-elect, was cock of the Canadian walk. Editors in Britain and the U. S. sat back to analyze the results...
...towers-aircraft fueling points erected by Richfield Oil Co. of California. With similar foresight, Richfield Oil Corp. of New York last week announced its first floating service station, specially built to supply seaplanes and watercraft. All tanks are below deck, with no projection above except an office at the stern. The fuelling pumps are sunk in pits to safeguard the wings of aircraft drawn alongside. Richfield plans 99 similar units, painted with blue & buff checks for easy recognition from...