Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard and Radcliffe Classes of 1923 returned to Cambridge for their twenty-fifth reunions, they received a stern warning from the Population Reference Bureau that they were failing in one phase of their duty to America...
Turning to Plato's Republic for guidance, young Hahn designed a stern academy to "molest" the contentedly unfit.* In 1920, in the castle of Prince Max of Baden, last Imperial chancellor, Hahn took the Prince's son and three neighborhood children as his first pupils. By the time Hitler forced him into exile...
Last week in Edinburgh, where, stern John Knox once thundered against the impiety of 16th Century non-Presbyterian queens,-some Scots were up to their favorite game of censuring English morals. Their targets: Princess Elizabeth and husband Philip...
...Venerable J.H.L. Morrell, Archdeacon of Lewes. The royal couple, said Morrell, had "formally done their duty to God by attending divine services on God's day," then had merely "enjoyed themselves naturally and normally as people [in France] normally behave." But nobody knew better than royalty that the stern voice of Scottish conscience could not be entirely ignored. It was not likely to happen again...
Louis Jouvet is the stern detective on the case and is, as always, excellent, stopping just short of underplaying. As Jenny's husband, the producers have cast another fine actor, Bernard Blier, who has the insolence to play the romantic lead with a bald head. Imagine. Other good performers are Simone Renant as the couple's faithful friend, and Charles Dulin as the debauched producer...