Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...From the third car descended Donna Rachele Mussolini. At a reception the day before she had presided for the first time in her life as the Dictator's official hostess. Usually she lives in Milan, 350 miles from Rome. Appropriately the Dictator's wife was escorted by the tall, stern Roman with eagle-eyebrows and crisp white beard whom L'Avenir had called Il Duce's "designated successor": Count Costanzo Ciano...
...this episode, the profession thought it saw part of an explanation for Curtis-Martin's expensive acquisition in March of the Philadelphia Inquirer, a purchase that left only the Record between Curtis-Martin and monopoly of the morning field. Gloat by Publisher Julius David Stern of the Record...
Significance: Dictator Josef Stalin is now easing up on his stern program of forcing independent peasants onto the Government's collective farms; examples are beginning to be made of over-zealous patriots like stupid Nikolai Konekov...
Those who prefer anecdotes have only to buy Clémenceau,? the new biography by his onetime secretary Jean Martet, which was included last week in the list of U.S. non-fiction best sellers. But minds strong enough to enjoy a draught of Clémenceau, grim, tremendous, stern and undiluted, will prefer Grandeur et Misere to anecdotes...
...Manhattan last week Stern Bros. Department Store exhibited numerous Currier & Ives colored lithographs, found and also exhibited one of Currier & Ives original artists-Louis Maurer, 98. He went to work for Currier & Ives in 1850, drew on stone some of the famed "Life of a Fireman," "Life on the Plains" series. In 1884 he retired from the business of drawing and publishing colored prints. Today he collects seashells, plays the flute...