Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author: Max Ways, ace editorial writer for Publisher David Stern's Philadelphia Record...
Pretty bad for a Carroll were the proceedings in South Paris court where twelve stern-eyed Mainemen had heard young Paul Dwyer, serving a life sentence for the murder of 63-year-old Dr. James Littlefield, accuse Father Carroll of the crime (TIME, Aug. 15). Father Carroll flatly denied his guilt. Confronted on the stand with the fact that his alibi (serving a summons) covered not the night of the crime but the night before, Francis Carroll stuttered, reddened, said he had mixed his dates...
Last week's light Democratic vote (about 100,000) was no criterion, but in Clyde Reed, colorless Senator McGill should have a stern opponent in November...
...often proved a stepping-stone to the top-ranking bishopric of New York). St. Paul's is the oldest and biggest of the haughty Episcopal preparatory schools, and its headmastership always ranked high, but Dr. Drury's nolo episcopari enormously increased the prestige of the job. When stern, sonorous Dr. Drury died last February, S. P. S. trustees searched the Church for a man capable of filling Dr. Drury's shoes. Meanwhile, quiet Vice-Rector Crocker Kittredge, son of Harvard's famed Professor George Lyman ("Kitty"') Kittredge, ran the school...
...that 60% of the agreers are gentlemen, 30% just act like gentlemen and 10% neither are nor act like gentlemen. Result in the early years of the steel industry was that every price pool ended in price chaos. Then along came a gentleman who also carried a big stick-stern Judge Gary of U. S. Steel Corp. Since Big Steel at the turn of the Century had 65% of the total ingot-steel capacity, Judge Gary could easily knock into line any other company which disregarded his price policy. But open price-fixing was illegal, so Judge Gary would give...