Word: sterned
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...Fall then appeared before the Committee, looking worried, but apparently the same stern-faced man so well known in official Washington. One question was asked him?whether he had any statement to make. Thereupon he read an answer, declining to testify on the grounds...
...Princess. Nagako's father, General Prince Kuni, grandson of a former 'Emperor, represented Japan in the U. S. in 1909 at the Hudson-Fulton celebration. During her infancy he was at the Russo-Japanese front. Her mother sprang from the clan of Satsuma, stern in virtue. Nagako, aged 21, was born in the simplest of imperial residences. She attended the Peeresses' School when General Nogi was its President. Japan regards her as "the personification of beauty, virtue and love...
Most elderly graduates of colleges big and little can remember rushing to chapel in the cold of early Winter-mornings, sleepy, reluctant and with much trust to a long overcoat; but not all of them can remember that they profited largely from the performance of that stern duty. At the time they tried to agree with the prevailing belief, that anything painful was virtuous, but not all of them succeeding in doing it, and such as didn't still have their original doubts N. Y. Times
...seems to me that for the young men of America who have escaped so easily the stern and cruel demands which the long war years and the cruel days that have followed have brought upon the students of Europe, there is a challenge to sacrifice and to share somewhat these terrific burdens. This is a duty which Harvard men must not continue to deny as she has in the past three years...
Siegfried Wagner, son of the great composer, published in Stuttgart a volume of Erinnerungen (Recollections). It is a rambling memoir, as the name implies, written by a genial, chatty man from the standpoint of one who knew the famous Richard as kind papa, and the stern Cosima as affectionate mamma...