Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gentle Art. Occasionally, Fred Bason worried about his writing style, once went for advice to Virginia Woolf ("a tall, thin . . . miserably sad-looking woman . . . not in any way distinguished to look at"). She replied (or so Fred thought): "You would perhaps do well to read Stern." So Fred promptly bought a work by G. B. Stern-"but for the life of me I could see nothing [in it] to teach me the gentle art." On complaining to Mrs. Woolf, ha got back a cross note: "Sterne -Sterne with an E on the end! L. Sterne! V.W." And so, continues Fred...
Afterwards, more than 12,000 people heard stern-faced Old Soldier George Marshall describe Erle as a "young man of great promise, a clean, fine young man of exceptional character." Marshall went on to read the crowd a lesson from Erle...
Able, hard-hitting Editor Clayton Fritchey of the New Orleans Item has been in a hot spot ever since brash, bouncy David ("Tommy") Stern III bought the paper and became publisher 16 months ago (TIME, July 25, 1949). Fritchey seldom saw eye-to-eye with his boss on how to run the paper, ran into more trouble when Stern launched a Sunday edition last spring and began to lose heavily...
...Taking Orders." But was the policy actually so stern? The test would come as the Administration moved to fill out the quota of men it needs to put into uniform. Where were the additional men coming from? To maintain a force of 3,000,000 at constant strength, 750,000 replacements would be needed every year. Who were they going...
...first, the college-bred daughter understands and forgives her slum-born mother for having made a living out of brothels. In the second, she denounces her mother for making a fortune out of them. As a notorious woman's daughter, Vivie is naturally stiff-necked and stern in judgment; as a bad woman who has tried to be a good mother, Kitty Warren is naturally sentimental and defensive. Their personal relationship-beyond all considerations of economics or ethics-is irreconcilable. Few Broadway playwrights now in full bloom would be able or willing to write two such powerful scenes...