Word: solemnities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Campus" is the Yale spirit at its best. Mr. Goldsborough is concerned first for true culture and second for Yale tradition. He does not seem to realize that the malady at Yale is not the "Big Man" attitude not the spirit of competition, but the solemn sacredness of tradition. Harvard has competitions, club-elections, and all the other inevitable paraphernalia of undergraduate activities, but they fall to hamper true culture, simply because the system is not worshipped by the majority of students...
...Moscow went Leonid Krassin, Bolshevik Ambassador to France; Nikolai Krestinsky, Bolshevik Ambassador to Germany; Christian Rakovsky, Bolshevik Chargé d'Affaires in Britain. In the capital they are to sit in solemn conclave with the chiefs of the Communist Party. It was rumored that they would decide to recognize the debts to foreign countries contracted by the Tsarist régime...
...from prominent member of the famed St. Paul's choristers got hold of the idea and made a rhyme about it which he passed around at choir practice behind the cover of a fat hymnbook. It seemed very funny because everyone was supposed to be so solemn...
Germany has its industry, England its stolidity, and America its ingenuity, but to France has fallen the priceless gift of arousing the world to laughter. While governments tremble and nations totter on the brink of war, a solemn conclave meets in Paris, not to decide the next premier nor to formulate new regulations to assist the birthrate, but--to select the best chef in France...
...group of solemn judges, their faces reflective of the well-nigh sinister gravity of their office. They were the Hanging Committee. All week they labored, considering case after case, ever and again despaching small dockets which prescribed the action of certain hirelings who, with hammer, rope, wire, went about their business in the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan. They were preparing for the exhibition of the New Society of Artists. The doors of the gallery opened, the judgments of the committee and the consequent hangings stood patent to oglers...