Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giant star, sailing through the sea of space, were a battleship a million miles from stem to stern, and some spark set off its powder magazine, the result would be something like what happens when a star explodes as a supernova. Supernovae are the mightiest celestial cataclysms known to man. Last week astronomers at Mt. Wilson Observatory in California reported discovery and observation of a super-nova in the distant island universe NGC 4273. Although about a dozen supernovae have been found by chance on photographic plates, the one announced last week was the first since 1901 to be watched...
Based on reliefs, wall paintings, and actual masks found in Pompeii and other ancient cities, these masks are humorous exaggerations, of types found as much today as in ancient Rome; the prodigal son, the stern father, the money-lender, and the clever and stupid slaves...
Like most successful writers, Author Stern likes and approves her successful fellows, contemns her somehow threatening colleagues whose brows are higher: "I would give you the Hundred Most Massive Highbrow Living Writers, the kind who creak and heave as they thrust their shoulders at the wheel, like figures in a frieze of Modern Labour, for what Dorothy Parker can do by not quite using half the strength in her little finger." U. S. readers, who have long recognized Author
...Stern's freedom from the stuffier forms of British insularity, will applaud her enthusiasm over the Grand Canyon, the Mt. Wilson Observatory, the Marx Brothers. Litterateurs will admire her fondness for Jane Austen, deprecate her passion for the Elsie Dinsmore books. Newsy nosers will note her family were well-to-do London
...search for her King Charles's head. Author Stern shakes several likely candidates out of her grab-bag. One is a childhood desire to be included in the glorious goings-on of a large but mythical family of Rectory Children. One is a sturdy feminine contempt for what she dubs the Peter Pannery of the typical Englishman. And one is the Dreyfus Case, which fascinated her not only because she was a Jew but because she was a young contemporary of its long-drawn-out events. When the three lines of her association-autobiography have crossed, the King Charles...