Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who prefer anecdotes have only to buy Clémenceau,? the new biography by his onetime secretary Jean Martet, which was included last week in the list of U.S. non-fiction best sellers. But minds strong enough to enjoy a draught of Clémenceau, grim, tremendous, stern and undiluted, will prefer Grandeur et Misere to anecdotes...
...Manhattan last week Stern Bros. Department Store exhibited numerous Currier & Ives colored lithographs, found and also exhibited one of Currier & Ives original artists-Louis Maurer, 98. He went to work for Currier & Ives in 1850, drew on stone some of the famed "Life of a Fireman," "Life on the Plains" series. In 1884 he retired from the business of drawing and publishing colored prints. Today he collects seashells, plays the flute...
...President". Cosgrave had been in power (the same kind of power as that possessed by the Prime Minister of Canada) since 1922. He was thus the dean of European chiefs of states. Under his stern regime, tempered by the assassination of one of his ministers.† Ireland has greatly prospered, speedily progressed, now makes all the Ford tractors that are made, has just harnessed the River Shannon by a mighty hydroelectric network (TIME, Aug. 5). With no War debt, with a strong, exuberant old people who feel they have made a new start, there is nothing wrong with the Irish...
...fervent minds of the cheering Italian congregation, Pius XI unquestionably appeared at that moment as the dread and visible incarnation of stern St. Peter, girt in the austere scarlet of a bishop to do battle with the Devil...
...world's great composers had, at one time or other, patrons who provided their material support in order that genius might flourish unhampered. The custom is now outworn but last week in San Francisco a semblance of it reappeared when heirs of the late Jacob and Rosa Stern, wealthy Jews, established a fund whereby Jewish Com- poser Ernest Bloch will be endowed for the next ten years at the rate of $5,000 a year. Composer Bloch is regarded by many as the greatest U. S. composer.* Yet his livelihood has had to come largely from teaching-from...