Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That was also the picture painted by a dignified, stern-looking man with white hair and a white goatee-Frederick Remington, 81, retired employee of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., father of the man on trial. Son William, he said, had served as an acolyte at the family's Ridgewood, NJ. church. The elder Remington, a staunch Republican, did not agree with his son's "idea of New Dealism...he was radical in that respect." But Frederick Remington was confident that his son had never been a member of the Communist Party...
...with photographs of needy students, demanded contributions to his scholarship fund. He begged from businessmen all over the state. When they gave him their stock answer-"Dammit, Mac, I'll kick in for you, but why do I have to do this for Reed?"-he delivered them a stern lecture on the values of a liberal education...
Last week the American Medical Association's tough Bureau of Investigation cocked a stern eye at Senator LeBlanc and urged the profession to sign no Hadacol cards. "It is hoped," said the A.M.A., "that no doctor will be uncritical enough to join in the promotion of Hadacol. It is difficult to imagine how one could do himself or his profession greater harm from the standpoint of the abuse of the trust of a patient suffering from any condition. Hadacol is not a specific medication. It is not even a specific preventive measure...
This week the President's own Council of Economic Advisers issued a stern warning: "Care must be exercised not to swing between extremes from day to day, asserting one day that everything will be accomplished by voluntary cooperation and asserting the next day that it is too late for anything but compulsion. Under the American system, a constant blending of authority . . . and flexibility is essential ... If we ever lose the desire or ability to achieve this blend we shall have lost the greatest single asset in our total strength as a nation...
...That's how I came to read Tristram Shandy-which I did not enjoy. So I returned . . . to G. B. Stern and for 15 years she's been my favorite authoress. Once I had lunch with her at Albany, Piccadilly. It was a slap-up meal with the nicest steak I've ever eaten...