Word: solemnities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solemn justices laughed heartily...
...great, solemn procession of statesmen, relatives, soldiers marched behind the coffin to Chopin's dread funeral music and between two dense, black, sorrowing files of people who lined the entire route of the cortege...
That a group of sane minded men should sit in solemn conclave, discuss, deliberate, and finally pass a bill that dictates what, or what shall not be used to beautify feminine cheeks, is assuredly the height of Babbittism. The news has just arrived from the Harvard-Boston expedition to Egypt that the princess, who was first thought to be wife of Sneferuw, used green cosmetic. If the walls of the tomb had also contained a solemn royal edict to the effect that no such decoration was to be used by the women of the Nile valley, the explorers would doubtless...
...World, James Kirkwood is invariably solemn and virtuous. He wins his woman. Usually he is an outdoor soul with all the calm irresistibility of a brooding oak. He grows, in the present instance, in Africa. Beside him grows his cousin, a dope fiend and a very unpleasant individual. Out comes the girl, in love with the latter. Suicides, hypnotism and a flood are employed to solve the somewhat reminiscent situation. Mr. Kirkwood plays a double part of the hero and the bum. Anna Q. Nilsson is the girl...
Many severe and solemn babies...