Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crude Reminder. Though outsiders would probably never know how much soul-searching the Prince's parents had gone through, their decision was certainly a break in a firm family tradition. Queen Victoria was pleased to leave the education of the future Edward VII in the stern hands of Prince Albert. Since Victoria was still the sovereign when her grandchildren were growing up, and was still afraid of having them mix with other children ("The mischief done by bad boys and the things they may hear and learn from them cannot be overrated"), the future George V was also kept...
...1650s when Pieter van Doom arrived in Peter Stuyvesant's Manhattan from Gravezande, Holland. The family grew up in the U.S. heartland, on the farmlands of Illinois. Charles Lucius Van Doren was a kindly, industrious country doctor and farmer. His wife, Eudora A. Butz, was a stern taskmaster who at the age of ten carried the mail on horseback across the prairies. Married in 1883, they raised a family of five boys. "We lived together in a busy tumult," wrote Carl, the oldest of those sons, in his autobiography Three Worlds, "in a close-knit affection which the later...
...drawing near. Marguerite Gautier, propped up amid her tortured pillows, was feverishly wasting away with "consumption." To her lover Armand, from whom his stern father had parted her a year before, she wrote: "If we had lived together this year, I should not have died so soon...
...into the true princess. As her mentor, unfortunately, Yul Brynner demonstrates exactly the same monotonous cold tyranny that made him so successful in The King and I. Helen Hayes, never bad, has nearly always been better than she is as the iron dowager who shuts out the world. Her stern voice and manner fit the part, but her face, a bit rosy, rounded, and American, rarely becomes the countenance of an empress...
...exercise of will and pride he made himself a ship's master, but older preoccupations deep in his nature would not be denied. He spoke of the "private gnawing worm" which ate at his childhood. The worm was an unshakable sense of doom that haunted him, as did the stern themes of duty and responsibility. At the end of the world, on Borneo, he ran across a half-caste called Almayer who belonged to no world. Thus with Almayer's Folly began his great work. Almost compulsively, Conrad wrote between watches in his cabin aboard the Torrens, a crack...