Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This description of U.S. state mental hospitals last week came from no muckraker but from a speaker before the sober, conservative National Committee for Mental Hygiene. Mental health officials, gathered in Manhattan at the committee's annual meeting, agreed with this indictment by Mrs. Edith M. Stern, a writer on psychiatric problems. Cried Maryland's Mental Hygiene Commissioner George...
...Sutherland Highlanders. The detained correspondents included the New York Post's George L. Cassidy, who said Lieut. Colonel Webb explained that Britain's military policy in Palestine is to have her troops "make such a nuisance of themselves [that] the bloody Jews will cease protecting the Stern gang and other terrorists." Colonel Webb added: "I don't care if I'm out of the Army tomorrow...
...Scott is as fierce-eyed and commanding in bronze as he was in life. Last week, under his stern, still eyes, his survivors passed a milestone: the 100th anniversary of his birth. The big news about it was that the Guardian was still, unmistakably, one of the world's half dozen great newspapers...
...Arab side is given with understanding and perfunctoriness. Various shades of British opinion in Palestine are flashed, from outright anti-Semitism to militant pro-Zionism. And the Jews range from turn-the-other-cheek scholars to Stern Gang bomb heavers. In the end, Joseph, the hero, is converted to terrorism, but the conversion is not convincing...
...that may transform a 20th Century Inquisition into a same, if overexcited, organ of public conscience. From out of this holy-of-holies stop Beacon Hill have come some of the most astonishing misconceptions of the public stood since the scholastics counted angles on pinpoints, and from this same stern eyric now comes a new concept of what Sin, traditional antagonist of all that was holy in Boston, will mean to New Englanders in these unsettling times...