Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Featuring a "word to the wise" one article says, "When the moon comes up over a silvery southern sea, and you stand on the promenade in your gold formal with a big handsome thing, watching the porpoises playing around the stern of the ship--then beware, if your friend is a Harvard...
...Ladd (H) defeated R. M. Gallagher, 16-15, 16-15, 12-15, 11-15, 15-12; L. P. Marvin (H) defeated H. Barcley, 5-15, 10-15, 17-16, 15-10, 15-8; C. Stern (H) defeated S. S. Greeley, 15-13, 15-10, 11-15, 15-7; W. C. Ramsey (LIB) defeated N. R. Gidding, 16-14, 12-15, 15-10, 12-15, 18-16; J. C. Gildden (H) defeated C. H. Owsley...
...time taxation w?as regarded as temporary and when rates settled down at relatively high levels in the 19203, their sting was dulled by easy money. In Depression there was little income to tax. But when the bill for Recovery was finally presented, the Tax Collector suddenly emerged as stern, ubiquitous reality. Taxes had become, and were apparently to remain, a major item in the cost of doing business, a determining factor in the cost of living...
John Milton's appointment was a God-given gift to two rival Manhattan newspapers, David Stern's Post and the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram, which were last week running featured Frank Hague series. Among the facts dug up from old investigations was that John Milton was Frank Hague's personal banker. John Milton's checks, for instance, paid for the $6,250-per-year mayor's $125,000 estate. The mayor always reimbursed his lawyer in cash. When investigators started to probe John Milton's own affairs, he blandly declared that he had just...
Last week, if he read Lewis' The Prodigal Parents, Granville Hicks must have been wondering again. A brief, inconsequential book, more typical of Lewis' choppy short stories than of his novels, The Prodigal Parents is notable only for the stern tone it adopts toward the Communist Party and for its sympathetic portrait of the type of U. S. businessman Lewis has previously satirized. The story revolves around the rebellion of Frederick William Cornplow, a plump, prosperous, middle-aged automobile dealer of Sachem Falls, N. Y., who is a dead ringer for Babbitt...