Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When examined carefully, the offers of the Reich government all bear the familiar ear-marks of the proverbial gift-horse. Frankly, all have that hollow ring; the appearance of flimsy subterfuge; the look of ill-disguised bad-faith. France must assume a stern, unyielding attitude at once if she is to preserve her prestige, and retain the support and alliance of the Soviet. Germany must be faced now and beaten in this desperate gamble, for in five or ten years time, she, and not France, will be once more the King-pin on the European alley...
...stolid determination, the unflagging perseverance, and the simple kindliness so ably portrayed by Muni jibe nicely with the popular conception of what the quite genius must have been. The plot as well as the character keep a close grip on fact. A vivid notion is given of the stern battle of a humble scientist against ignorance, fantasy, and professional bigotry. Coupled with the accuracy, however, there is a most judicious selection of dramatic incident. Foremost in this line is the scene in which Pasteur is compelled by circumstance to call upon his proud, disdainful opponent, Dr. Charbonnet (Fritz Leiber...
...Pels has spent long hours pondering the State of the Union. With reservations, he has been a lifelong Single Taxer.* He is close to the New Deal, is a constant adviser to Publisher Julius David Stern, in whose Philadelphia Record he is a stockholder and director. In his book, This Changing World, published in 1933 but written before, he came to the conclusion that money & banking was the weak factor in capitalism, outlined what for all practical purposes was NRA and set up what are supposed to be the New Deal's long-range objectives. Wrote...
...have heard that Harvard is a democratic institution, that it looks with stern disfavor on Fascist ideology. Yet there is little student choice --a Freshman feels that the deities were on his side if he is admitted into a House of his second or third preference, and discovers a small sprinkling of his friends there. The arbitrary limitation of eight friends that may be admitted as a group only increases his sense of frustration and feeling of being a misfit...
...This infant rapidly strides to the fore, and throws herself repeatedly about Calvin's wrinkled neck, in the most gratuitous mannor conceivable. She is alone for a while, but, seen it develops that she has a most insolent pup of a jilted flance; a hatchet-faced companion; a stern, outraged mother whose dignity is regal; an oily detective who shadows her every step; and, back in Arizona, a cattle-king father with a fidgetty trigger finger...