Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extra dollars would buy from Chrysler this year. At last week's Manhattan debut, "the daring new Dodge" did not look as daring as new models of other motor-makers. The chief changes were a slight lowering of the body, and a change from the swept-back stern to the bustle-back, thus providing more luggage space. An automatic shift ("Gyro-Matic") will be optional on the "Coronet" models...
Thereupon Stevens proceeded to release the violent pressure on his stern New England conscience. State auditors who had just examined Andover's books reported a shortage of $3,295.28. Nor were the Andover books the only ones in trouble: a recent state report showed that 21 towns had acquired deficits of more than $62,000, in one way or another...
...mayor and the village clerk were both away when sleek, dark-suited Willem Johannes Janse van Rensburg rolled importantly into dusty Hennenman in a big car marked with the official Gs of government service. But Rensburg was not one to wait on protocol. With one stern glance about the little (pop. 1,146) Orange Free State village, he commandeered a likely office, announced to the assembled villagers that he was the new government health inspector and asked for complaints...
...stubborn refusal to comply with the spirit of the occasion, stern-faced Cambridge policemen have been confiscating copies of SEE and EYE magazines from local news stands...
...Haydn: Violin Concerto No. 1 in C (Isaac Stern, violinist, with string orchestra; Columbia, 6 sides). One of the most delightful, if not the most profound, of all fiddle concertos; cleanly, clearly and delightfully played. Recording: good. Symphony No. 88 (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Also one of Haydn's most charming, but in the slow movement Conductor Ormandy drags where he should be warm and graceful. Recording: good...