Word: solemnities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moment the resolution seemed upon the point of passing; the vexed question of "disarmament" was to be shelved again. Then up rose Count Apponyi, that lean Hungarian statesman, a grand seigneur of legend, whose pointed white beard, flaring Roman nostrils, and face of parchment, give him, when he is solemn, the air of an exiled patriarch, and, when he laughs, that of a goat. He swept the conclave with proud and sombre eyes. Twisting a little paper in his hand he began to speak...
...plane moved so fast that it seemed foolish to suppose that the solemn and magnificent music bore any relation to its maneuvers. Suddenly it banked, began to plunge down. An officer on Mitchell Field watched it descend. This machine, a 1,400 horsepower Curtiss racer, with a wingspan of only 22 feet, had been sent up for its first official speed test. Its manufacturers believed that it could travel 255 miles an hour. In it Lieut. Alford J. Williams had on an ancient shirt, greased with the smuts of innumerable flights ? a good luck shirt. If he had good...
...Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, had described as "Fosdick?the least hated and best loved heretic that ever lived." That a heretic should also be the most widely acclaimed pulpit-orator of his generation was (to the Geneva cosmopolites) one of those magnificent Americanisms which added flavor to the most solemn occasion...
...last week, when Sir Edmund was being congratulated and interviewed upon his golden wedding anniversary. An Oxonian newspaper reporter had shown ignorance of those same Pre-Raphaelites and of how he, Edmund Gosse, son of a penurious naturalist, had been "privately educated in Devonshire", had slaved over solemn religious tomes in his invalid mother's library, tutoring himself afterwards by. night when he was a young curator at the British Museum, until his scholarship and verses won him the friendship of Poets Swinburne and Rossetti, the comradeship of Robert Louis Stevenson, the hand of Painter Alma-Tadema...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS-Eugene O'Neill's solemn history of a New England farm and the young wife of the stern and rockbound farmer...