Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salesman, peddling songs on the side, when he decided to go into music publishing. The big songs then were "Annie Rooney" (1890), "Daisy Bell" (1892), "My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon" (1892), "The Sidewalks of New York" (1894). Marks wrote a lyric, "The Lost Child." Joe Stern, a necktie salesman, wrote the music. They plugged their product with colored lantern slides which showed a policeman encountering in the streets a waif, who at the station house turns out to be his long-lost daughter...
Upon Philadelphia's Board of Education last week fell that same stern gaze when Dr. McClenahan, a member since 1931, uprose to announce that the Board was "guilty of sending out illiterate reports of its own proceedings." In its published minutes he had found a split infinitive, a singular noun followed by a plural verb...
...leaves on his cap. To Captain Macnamara, who had gone punting many a time as a boy, mud was no stranger. Bugles blew men to quarters. Down along 650 feet of deck raced 1,300 warrant officers, petty officers, sailors, Royal Marines to jam themselves on the tiny stern deck abaft the anti-aircraft guns. A petty officer with a megaphone scrambled to the top of the stern range finder. "By the numbers, jump!" he bellowed. "One-two-three-HIPE!!" As one man. 1,300 seamen sprang in the air to land with a shattering crash directly over the cabin...
...first time since the Revolution, stern Bolshevik elders permitted Communist Youth Pravda to shriek in a seven-column headline last week WE WANT TO DRESS ATTRACTIVELY! Youth Pravda was permitted to flay the State clothing trust for its high-handed rejection of new styles submitted at a Moscow competition last year in favor of "old styles which are easier to make...
Score--Lowell 18, Kirkland 11. Goals--S. W. Stern 3, Illoway 2, Roorbach, Walsh, Rogers 3, Keyes. Fouls--Nottingham 2, Roorbach, S. W. Stern, Rogers 2, Buschmann. Referee--Vahan Moushegian. Time--two 15-minute periods. ADAMS LEVERETT Wills, Chiron, r.f. l.f., Cogswell, Maddux, Reed Anderson, Donahue, l.f. r.f., Wallace, Byer, Woodruff DeBlois, Huntington, c.c., Jahn, Raysor Young, r.g. l.g., Leak, Lasinsky Hale, l.g. r.g., Mangels, Johnson, Stevens...