Word: solemnities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adirondack woods shone with, and the waters of Lake Placid reflected, many a solemn dark face last week on the 127th anniversary of the birth of John Brown whose soul goes marching...
Some 60 correspondents assembled last week at Joachimsthal, Czechoslovakian spa. They ferreted industriously, almost hysterically, into the doings of three solemn gentlemen. The gentlemen met every day in a hotel at which the other guests were invalids gulping down incessantly glass after glass of curative, radium-active water...
...days later a solemn conclave was held in Montreal, at which cognizance was taken of the aggressiveness, roughness on both sides which had marked the games. Billy Coutu, Boston player, was expelled from the league; fined $100. Hooley Smith, Ottawa, was suspended for a month; fined $100. Fines of $50 each were meted out to George Boucher, Ottawa captain, Lionel Hitchman, Jimmy Herberts, both of Boston. Other players, it was announced, were to be subject of further investigation...
High mass drew to its solemn close in Beaux Cathedral, France. Three young men waited in the square outside to sell newspapers to the faithful. All the newspapers were the same-an issue of Editor Leon Daudet's L' Action Française (royalist), for whose editorial attacks upon Republican Catholics the Pope lately placed the newspaper on the index expurgatorius (TIME, Jan. 24) and more lately excommunicated impenitent Editor Daudet and his colleague, Charles Maurras. . . . Out of the Cathedral came, not only the flock but their shepherd as well, the Bishop of Beaux in the awful splendor...
...detest them especially when they are long. They are unprogressive, impracticable, unhealthy. They are masks for solemn humbugs, weak chins, degenerate and receding jaws. They are nests for bacteria. . . . Bah! I hate beards...