Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Raking the brownshirts' vaunted "Totalitarian State" from stem to stern, von Papen flayed its muzzling of the Press, its meddling with religion, its encouragement of fanaticism and the drift toward radicalism of those Nazis who keep shouting for a Second Revolution. "Did we experience an anti-Marxist revolution," he barked, "only to carry out the program of Marxism...
Suddenly amid a loud crunching of steel on stone, the Dresden quivered from stem to stern. Down in the dining saloon waiters plunged head first into their platters. Decks tilted crazily while frightened Germans ran screaming from rail to rail. In a few minutes the Dresden's first S. O. S. was picked up by the coastal steamers King Harald and Crown Princess Martha, and the French navy despatch boat Ardent. The giant British battleship Rodney, visiting Stavanger, also heard the call but was told that no further assistance was necessary...
...suit and crushing in his left hand a rumpled brown hat. Click!-the heels of II Duce's black top boots snapped together and up went his arm in the Roman salute Nazis have borrowed. Up went Der Führers arm, too, and Dictator eyed Dictator, each stern to the point of glowering. For the first time on record the unruly lock of hair which normally hangs forward over Adolf Hitler's brow was seen to have been neatly pomaded back. Smack!-Dictator Mussolini, now all smiles after shaking hands with effusive vigor, flung his left...
...most money: $2,021,567. Paintings brought $685,475; books and autographs. $644,689.50. Most famed collections dispersed were those of Thomas Fortune Ryan ($409,354), Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick ($330.617), Mrs. Whitelaw Reid ($116,015) (TIME, Dec. 4; Jan. 15; May 14). The late Mrs. Benjamin Stern's library and 18th Century French collection brought $243,142. The highest price for anything was paid at the Ryan auction by canny Lord Duveen of Millbank who bid $102,500 for a marble bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana, 15th Century Florentine. Highest literary item was Francis...
...thought. With a windfall in his lap he neglects to keep the necessary firm grip on his skittish character. He falls ridiculously in love, squanders his money on a grandiose scheme, and finally meets an appropriate but not altogether tragic fate. His author's verdict on him is stern but not unkindly: "It was his mission in life to father all forms of progress and development, and he had left behind him desolation in one form or another wherever he had gone. He was ignorant and therefore innocent; a warrior in the cause for human emancipation even were...