Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slums & Strikes. He was bom on Dec. 17, 1874 in Berlin, Ontario, a town which later, in the fever of World War I, changed its name to Kitchener. His first political asset was the endowment of a historic name. Grandfather William Lyon Mackenzie, a stern and pious man who fled at 25 from awful poverty in his native Scotland, was a journalist, politician and rebel. He had led an armed rebellion in 1837 against an aristocratic oligarchy which was throttling representative government in what is now Ontario. The uprising was short-lived and forced him into exile, but it earned...
...course of its losing fight to exclude Marshall Field's Chicago Sun, the high-&-mighty Associated Press took some stern lecturing at the hands of prosecutors and the courts. Last week it got a dressing-down from one of its own members. To Editor James Kerney Jr. of Trenton's little Evening Times (circ. 54,381), it seemed that A.P. had acted with poor grace when the Supreme Court told it to mend its ways (TIME...
...paid well. Allen kept a part-time job with J. David Stern's New Dealing Philadelphia Record at $150 a week, but made $50,000 a year from the Merry-Go-Round. He insists that he had to hand big chunks of it to lawyers, since Merry-Go-Round produced almost as many libel suits as scoops...
...than qualitative Fawzia, whose family with a century of rule be hind it looked upon the Iranian dynasty as an upstart, was enraged when her husband publicly brought other women into the Gulistan Palace. She consulted an American psychiatrist in Bagdad, and then came back to Teheran with a stern message for her husband. Things were better for a little while, but the young Shah soon relapsed. Last May Fawzia went home to Egypt on the pretext of ill health; last week she was still there. Court circles gossiped that an Egyptian divorce had been secretly granted. But the Iranian...
According to romantic legend, the young and ardent Rudolf had fallen in love with the youthful Baroness, who was small, round and luscious. For a brief time they were happy. Then, rather than obey Emperor Franz Josef's stern order to separate, they died together. Such was the cinema version of Mayerling which Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux played out against a background of Strauss waltzes...