Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Africa TIME'S resident correspondent in Cairo, Harry Zinder, knows practically every newsmaker in the Middle East, from the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (who claims descent from Mohammed but has blue eyes and a blond beard) to stern, Bible-quoting General Montgomery of the British Eighth Army (who can't stand having his soldiers cough when he speaks and has a picture of Rommel pinned over his bed). Jack Belden, TIME'S roving correspondent in the East, probably knows General "Uncle Joe" Stilwell better than any other correspondent alive (he was with him on that long, nerve...
Most recent hunter of the Shakespeare snark is Alden Brooks, born in Cleveland, Ohio. His 700-page Will Shakspere and the Dyer's Hand is his second try at unmasking Shakespeare, and the result of 20 years' sniffing among Shakespearean data. Stern, relentless Alden Brooks takes a poor view of the accused. He depicts Shakespeare as a butcher's son in Stratford, "a country youth who has to leave school early in order to assist his father in the killing of cattle . . . one who sows his wild oats so liberally that he must, first, marry against...
...question before the jury was whether O'Donnell's story about the charges of convoying was true. A further problem: Publisher Stern's editorial (he admitted authorship) was on its face libelous to O'Donnell's character. Could Stern prove his charges about O'Donnell? To the witness stand trooped Washington newsmen...
...jury found for Reporter O'Donnell. But Reporter O'Donnell has not quite got the $50,000. Publisher Stern's attorney charged that the verdict was "a palpable miscarriage of justice,", moved for a new trial...
Horace Taft, stern as well as benign, made his boys work their heads off. Said he, with a scornful glance at progressive education: "I am a great believer in the vital importance for character building of that which comes from training in old-fashioned obedience. . . . The farther we move toward the Golden Age in which the people shall rule, the more vital becomes the necessity that the people shall obey." His passion for civic as well as scholastic discipline won him undeserved notoriety as a prohibitionist. Sighed he: "Although I was never a prohibitionist, I rarely succeeded in making anybody...