Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the 554,939 people who read "Fiorenza's Own Story" was Publisher Julius David Stern of the New York Post. Publisher Stern heartily despises William Randolph Hearst. Twice before he has used his front page to give his fellow-publisher unmerciful Hayings, once on the New Deal, once on the Lindberghs' self-exile. Last week aggressive Publisher Stern spread a blistering two-column editorial on the Post's front page accusing the Mirror of a blatant fabrication...
Taking over his new duties last week, Superintendent Johnson got a shiny official Cadillac, an office filled with roses and snapdragons, a stern ultimatum from potent North Central Association of Colleges & Secondary Schools. Unless, the Association intimated, Chicago took prompt steps to enlarge its high-school teaching staff, North Central would remove understaffed Chicago schools from its accredited list, make their graduates take examinations to enter the Association's member colleges...
...Henry William Greist, whose hospital is the northernmost on the American Continent, announced last week that after 16 years at Barrow, Alaska he and his wife must leave their stern post. Reason: ill health. Since 1920, Dr. & Mrs. Greist have been "outside" only once, eleven years ago. Now, after a visit with relatives in California, a visit to Monticello, Ind. where Dr. Greist left a private hospital to go to Alaska, a visit with their only child David at Stony Brook (L. I.) School for Boys, the Greists are going to Europe, perhaps to Africa. That is where Dr. Greist...
...JOHN OF AUSTRIA-George Slocombe-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Scholarly life of the illegitimate son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who stopped the Moslems at Lepanto in 1571. For those who like their history in stern, stiff doses...
More disillusioned than most of her heartthrob imitators, Dorothy Dix is nevertheless a stern foe of sexual irregularity among her readership. "Often a girl writes me that I have turned her back just as she was starting down the primrose path, and married men and women tell me I have kept them from the sin and folly of the double life," she says. To women who have been jilted by married men, she has a standard reply: "Quit befooling yourself with false hopes. . . . Now, when his romance with you is as stale as his marriage, he hasn...