Word: solemnities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which is solemn nonsense whether or not Dr. Meiklejohn is actually about to organize a new college. It is also evidence that he had better. We seem to need something to show us. If Dr. Meiklejohn will undertake the job he will find plenty to do. The New Republic
...undersigned representatives of Great Britain, Japan, France and the United States, learning of the grave danger of hostilities breaking out between the provincial authorities of Kiangsu and Chekiang, feel it our duty to repeat and reaffirm in the most solemn manner the obligations of the Chinese Government in the present crisis, to prevent loss of life and property to members of the foreign community in and around Shanghai...
...Professor Henry Pratt Fairchild, of New York University, reiterated his solemn warning to the world against overpopulation, urged an ethical birth-control and a curb upon migration. Rear Admiral William L. Rodgers, U. S. N., took the occasion to predict a clash of yellow and white men in Australia when America and the Orient overflow their Continents, and also pointed a finger of suspicion at Japan for the late Philippine disturbances. Suave Tsurumi avowed Japan's innocence...
...Paris, and his Wiegenlied is listed in the catalog of every gramo-phone-record mannfacturer. But the bulk of Brahms remains "musicians' music." This is particularly true of his chamber music, classical forms to be executed by small combinations of stringed instruments and piano. Four or five solemn-visaged performers huddle their chairs into a little group in the centre of a platform and discourse with sweetness and subtlety-without the dramatic, vulgar crash of percussion units, without the resounding blare of brazen-throated trumpets and trombones. Such music demands a cult-and a temple...
...Solemn high mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, formally opened the 42nd Annual Convention of the Knights of Columbus. Bishop William Turner of Buffalo keynoted with a sermon on that popular subject, Atnericanism?aiming veiled thrusts at the K. K. K. The 356 delegates arose from their knees, paraded down Fifth Ave. to the Waldorf-Astoria...