Word: solemnities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...begged that there be no Dayton speeches or parade, eminent Daytonians were chagrined beyond gracefulness. Last week they were still bitterly quoting their police chief's description of the Lindbergh tactics: "a dirty, back-alley trick." Mayor Allen C. McDonald had put himself on record with the solemn pronouncement: "It is something that Dayton will not soon forget." Last week, with the incident five days old, a Dayton department store-one of several that had "played up" the Lindbergh visit in previous self-advertisements-proved Mayor McDonald right by advertising a "spirit of economy" bargain sale with the sarcastic...
...what Gen. W. S. Harney did to the Indians. He does not mention the massacre of Little Thunder, a peaceful Chief who happened to have his camp in the line of Harney's march. He does not mention the Red Cloud war. Nor does he mention the solemn treaties the Government made at different times with the Indians and then violated foully. Nor does he mention that Capt. Fetterman and Custer paid with their lives for some of the atrocities committed against the Indians by soldiers and other whites. Since you copy only what crooked politicians tell...
...four years are over, the gaunt spectre of divisionals has been met and, in most cases, thrust aside, and now for a brief week, the Senior sits high with the world at his feet: With the Baccalaureate Service tomorrow in Appleton Chapel opens a round of ceremonies, gay and solemn alike, calculated to send the graduate out from the University with a memory of a short hour of triumph to cap the remembrances of four years of struggles as an undergraduate...
...stamp upon us--"Listen to me, base mortal, or perish." And what a saving grace is his gift of humor, just as important in art as in daily life. Beethoven never tears a passion to tatters, never protests too much, can be serious and truly impressive without becoming solemn or pontificial. Before Beethoven, music had been practically limited to the expression of joy and sorrow in a broad sense of these terms. With his inborn whimsicality and with his philosophy, akin to that of Shakspere, that nothing is more deadly than to take ourselves too seriously, Beethoven developed in music...
...Frenchmen, confirmed bachelors of 63 and 65, spent three days, last week, as the house guests of a respected and venerated British man, 62, and wife, 60. Because these four persons are great personages, their conjunction occurred amid the richest and most solemn pomp which Imperial Britain has evoked since the World War. Host and hostess: Their Britannic Majesties. Guests: President Gaston Doumergue of the French Republic and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand...