Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emanuel Magnin had been nicknamed "Johnnie" by an aunt, but after he learned storekeeping under his mother's stern tutelage, he adopted John as a formal middle name. He personally supervises Magnin's staff of buyers in Manhattan. A friendly, dignified little man, President Magnin lives with his wife at the Hotel Savoy-Plaza, always spends three months a year in Europe. The active San Francisco Magnin is his youngest brother, Vice President & General Manager Grover Arnold Magnin, 50, short and ruddy. He has just taken a duplex suite in the St. Francis Hotel near his matriarchal mother...
...note in the Yale News that a portrait is being painted of the first Eli graduate, Jacob Heminway, who received his degree in 1704. With no description of the gentleman in exis-life. Kirby's opinion that Heminway was a "bigoted, self-centered, stern old Puritan" is said to be confirmed by the fact that in later life "he cut off his tence, the artist, Donald Kirby, is "synthesizing" his features from available scraps of information regarding his only daughter without a penny because she had married an Episcopalian...
With the Allied rejections in his pocket, Secretary Lansing put up a stern, uncompromising front when Germany's Ambassador Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff called at his office one day late in April 1916. A stenographer set down their conversation verbatim. Excerpts...
Meanwhile Soviet news organs also slued completely around to inform Moscovites that persons who oppose Christmas trees are no longer the virtuous Old Bolsheviks and the stern Heroes of the Revolution they were fortnight ago, but are now despicable "Leftwing oppositionists...
...long before he was back to the subject of football again with a stern criticism of the press. "Publicity hs ruined many a promising gridster by expecting too much from him", the mentor said. "All too many boys have tow strikes on them before they start...