Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pilot, official publication of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Boston, issued a stern warning to the girls about their summer dress. Slacks are not yet being worn to Mass, "but already young ladies and some not quite so young," said The Pilot, "are coming to the sacraments especially Saturday afternoon confession attired in this most unbecoming manner . . . Let those more competent to judge say whether or not there is ever a time when young ladies should wear trousers-the fact is that many are wearing them. Whatever they may lack in dignity anc comeliness, they are modest...
...executions, which pointedly disregarded long-standing laws against capital punishment, stirred misgivings among many Argentines, but no impressive wave of public criticism. Yet to be seen was whether the stern punishment would slow down the pace of plotting...
...Colombia, $95 million for highways, agriculture, railroads, and power development. Most dramatic project: a railroad along the winding Magdalena River to replace stern-wheeler river boats as Colombia's main transport, open up vast new areas for cattle production...
...likable sort of Hungarian Li'l Abner, renowned in physical-culture circles as Mr. Universe (6 ft. 2 in., 220 Ibs.), had crashingly fallen for Broadway's Daisy-Mae-Westish Actress Jayne (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?) Mansfield, 23, in full view of the tabloids. A stern theatrical disciplinarian, Sexagenarian West, punishing Mickey for openly airing his romance, demoted him in her show by putting him back on the biceps line. Since everything Mickey had now seemed to be Jayne's, Mae also killed a scene in which Mr. Universe had husked to her, twice nightly...
Leonard Wood '31, violinist and publisher of the Arlington Advocate, led the Orchestra in Wagner's "Prelude to The Meistersingers," while 1,500 reunioners tippled to the Teutonic tunes. Balloons festooned the gilded balconies and 1931 Harvard banners emboldened the stern crenellations of Boston's biergarten...