Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...College of the Incarnate Word near San Antonio, Tex. sits Pope Pius' staff commander in the stern fight for Mexican souls, Monsignor Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, still Apostolic Delegate to Mexico, though ousted by its Government (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932). Last week in the pages of Catholicism's Commonweal appeared stirring details of soul warfare between State and Church...
Climax of the second monthly installment of The March of Time, out last week, is a series of swift international shots showing Europe drawing an iron ring around Adolf Hitler. While the German Realmleader broods in his Bavarian hideaway, marching men in Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Russia tramp a stern significance into the warning words of statesmen. Besides a visual integration of a taut European situation, this March of Time edition contains: 1) the dramatic crisis in the office of the New York Daily News on the night of the Hauptmann verdict; 2) an electric light bulb breaking, milk dropping...
...duration of the war, it glowered from the bow of this cruiser, ever ready to hurl six pound shells at a Spanish invader. Only once, however, did the "Harvard's" commander believe he saw an enemy ship; and then his manoeuvres were such that only armament stationed in the stern could have been effective...
SHINING AND FREE-G. B. Stern-Knopf ($2.50). Further adventures of The Matriarch...
Miss Murray's stern mien, however, and the resultant depression in the attitudes of the waitresses soon convinced onlookers that something far more important was in the wind. Evidently a crisis was at hand. The waitresses were seen to gesticulate, stare blankly into space, and undergo all the agonizing symptoms human beings display when they are attempting to exercise mental powers. The task was in vain, however. The lasses were not up to the situation. The menus had been stolen and the poor girls could not memorize the order list. A typewriter was employed and Freshmen were forced to order...