Word: solemnities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Consul General delivered a solemn protest to the Chinese Government. Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain in London swore that all British would be defended by every means from violence. "One foreign life for every Chinese life," was the Chinese answer printed on posters and later one Gavin, British subject, was bumped on the head...
...many respects that the conflict is inevitable. War with America is physically impossible, were there cause, but war with the Soviet is possible and probable. "China will join Russia against Japan because of her resentment over the 21 demands.* . . . "Japan made a big mistake in recognizing Russia. Despite her solemn pledge to the contrary, the Russians are doing their best to spread communism in Japan and Korea, as they are doing in China...
...bishop's crozier. It originated with the Indians and in the old days the warriors of two tribes in their war paint would form the sides, often 800 or 1000 strong. The goals were placed from 500 yards to half a mile apart with practically no side boundaries. A solemn dance preceded the game, after which the ball was tossed into the air and the two sides rushed to catch it on "crosses" similar to the ones now in use. The medicine men acted as umpires and the squaws urged the men on by beating them with switches...
London was wrapped in the darkness of night. A casual pedestrian, had he chanced to pass the House of Commons, would probably have stopped to admire its solemn dignity. His eye would have strayed upward, climbed the tower on which sits "Big Ben" and would have seen the light which shines above go out?the sign that a session had just ended. Not many minutes earlier, a weary man had risen from the Treasury Bench to make his way?some few hundred yards to his downy bed. . . . Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, had been battling...
...sooner had the reports of the Sixth International Birth Control Conference been printed (TIME, Apr. 6) and circulated, than the great opponent of this movement uttered unalterably stern and solemn condemnation...