Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days later Publisher David Stern, a New Dealer who hates Mr. Hearst as much as Mr. Hearst hates the New Deal, slapped a two-column editorial on the front page of his New York Post under the headline: HOW HEARST HELPED DRIVE THE LINDBERGHS INTO EXILE. Quoting part of Mr. Hearst's message to Reuters, the editorial proceeded as follows: "What Hearst Did Not Reveal...
Come and get a thrill out of "Mutiny on the Bounty". It's strong, stern drama, but there's nothing crude or melodramatic about it. For the villain is a hero when he pits his will against the sea, and the hero looks just a little villainish when he revels in tropical warmth while some of his partners face trial and punishment...
From one of his own subordinates last week President Butler received a stern tut-tutting. In his annual report, Dean William F. Russell of Columbia's Teachers College wrote: "The little red schoolhouse, with its ignorant teacher, slight equipment, few books, red-hot stove and icy walls has become glorified in some minds; distance has lent enchantment; and the inference is that if we should only return to the good old days all would be well...
Luckily he had Charles on his side. When the Lord High Admiral resigned, no successor was appointed, and Pepys became Secretary. He made the fur fly. He put down "corruption, laissez-faire and boozy optimism" with a stern official hand. Says Biographer Bryant: "By his precept and example Pepys was to transform an inchoate and ill-directed service into the most enduring, exact and potent instrument of force seen on this disorderly planet since the days of Imperial Rome...
...following officers were elected at a meeting of the Stamp Club last evening: Gordon B. Allan '38, president; Francis T. Hassett '39, vice-president; Dana B. Mslone '38, secretary; and David S. Stern '39, treasure...