Word: solemnities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, the Vice President told a story. In Boston, he created a noonday commotion and dominated a solemn evening jubilee...
...Solemn Jubilee. Mr. Dawes sat on the platform of the Old North Church near two lighted lanterns. Introduced by Mrs. Pauline Revere Thayer, he rose to pronounce an oration on two beacon-lights: The Constitution, The New England Character...
...Advocate's "Dial" number will be worth keeping for the things it leaves unsaid as well as for those it has committed to print. All the familiar procession of "The Dial's" characteristics has been passed in review in the preparation of this frolic. Particularly its solemn and desperate determination to be ultra about everything--poetry, essays, short stories, Parisian correspondence, and contemporary art and letters...
...COMPLETE LIMERICK BOOK- Langford Reed-Putnam ($2.50). In a spirit of scholarly dignity appropriate to so solemn an undertaking, Mr. Reed, himself no idle Limericist, has prepared the compendium that was so sorely needed to preserve, immortal and immaculate, to a pure-minded posterity, all the old men of Tobago, Havana, Copenhagen and Siberia; all the nymphs of Birmingham, Nantucket, Joppa, Australia, Bangor and Iquique. Mr. Reed shows quite clearly, despite the dissenting opinions of the Messrs. Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett and Commissioner Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army, that the best Limericks have never, at any time, depended...
...this square, the coffin was placed upon a black-draped platform, great, smoking funeral pyres at its corners. Here the corpse of Ebert remained in tate for several hours while troops marched past to the strains of Chopin's and Beethoven's solemn music an:! while sorrowing Berliners took their last look at the remains of their late chief...