Word: solemnities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mexico. When must a church refuse to obey the civil law? As a point in practical churchmanship, this question faced 94 bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Manhattan, in solemn session assembled in Synod Hall of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
...inspection of the current issue of the Lampoon indicates that the ancient the is still being performed with all due solemnity, that the old joke is still being cracked at the expense of the reader. Industrious young clubmen in training for business have collected a mass of really professional advertisements. The more juvenile members of the club who still have a taste for collecting things have clipped a fair sample of the best and the worst jokes from the various funny papers such as the Tennessee Mugwump, the American Legion Weekly, and the Daily Mail. The fact that a number...
...must not do what for me would be a disingenuous and fictitious thing, under the guise of taking solemn rows. I am sure you would not have...
...order, therefore, that this happy event may bring forth, in the souls of all, worthy fruit, privilege we of grant to blessing you, those our beloved present in son, our the name and of proclaiming a plenary indulgence on the most solemn day of this reunion under the usual forms and conditions...
...drank from them and under what circumstances? No one can ever know. Were the sparkling contents a forbidden delight furtively drunk by Puritan students of two centureis ago? Were they imbibed by Continental soldiers who were quartered in the hall during the Revolution? Did they serve to enliven some solemn Phi Bets Kappa dinner held there in the last century...