Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play has many picturesque moments, one towering one: the trial scene, with Christ, surrounded by saints and angels, in the Judgment Seat. At high moments, Cenodoxus is capable of a stern eloquence; at low ones, of a quaint humor. But except as a spectacle, the play limps, largely because Playwright Bidermann burdened his hero with the sin of Pride, "as the most decent for portrayal on the stage." It is also the most deadening; about all a playwright can do is lambaste it. Had Cenodoxus-who was, after all, a Parisian-gone in for a few of the more scarlet...
From somewhere in Manhattan a "Mr. Crawford" sent Singer Lotte Lehmann a magnum of champagne, 72 roses and an apology. Late one night Singer Lehmann's telephone had buzzed, a stern voice had said: "This is Mr. Crawford of NBC. Why haven't you appeared for the March of Dimes broadcast? It starts in three minutes." Sleepy Miss Lehmann sang Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes into the telephone, later learned that there was no Mr. Crawford at NBC. With the champagne and roses Mr. Crawford sent a note, written on Hotel Waldorf-Astoria stationery: "With these...
Until six months ago Lake County had just one staid, old newspaper, the Waukegan News-Sun. Publisher Frank H. Just, bald, stern and 71, has been a newspaper man for 43 years, and a lifelong foe of gambling...
...clay applied while the subject is flat on his back. Like a modern lace-pack beauty treatment, it consisted of a series of light, quick-drying layers that could be put on while the subject sat at his ease. Thus beplastered for posterity were Thomas Jefferson's stern idealism, the Othello glare of youthful Tragedian Edwin Forrest (Orson Welles of his day), Dolly Madison's smile, the pinched, toothless jaws of 90-year-old John Adams, many another...
Famed is Colonel Apted's stern "Break it up, boys!" Famed also are some of his great & good friends: Felix Frankfurter, Joseph Kennedy, Robert Benchley, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and "all his damn kids...