Word: solemnities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...somebody else's name in the papers now and then-Jack Dempsey's or John Ringling's. . . . "I would go to a motion picture show if I could be sure I would not see pictures of an ex-Cabinet officer. . . . "If a man is too solemn, they'll think the whole weight of the world is on his shoulders. If he is gay, they'll think he is frivolous. The only thing to do is 'be ourself.'. . . "I have not a sore head or a sore toe. . . . "I have no personal feeling against...
...even tea threat of violence from international affairs, we must devise means for arraying against in natural hatred and loathing. Our plan, by taking away all promise of profit in war, would destroy a great deal of the incentive for war. It would make the declaration of war as solemn, and as repugnant a thought as possible to all classes of people...
...Bagataway', as they called the game, continued Coach Herbert, "became an important ceremonial rite. A match was proceeded by a solemn dance. Then the teams, each, consisting of the complete fighting force of a tribe prepared to slaughter each other. There were often as many as 800 or 1000 warriors on a side. The squaws aided by switching the braves to make them fight more vigorously...
...Earl Balfour, dean of Britain's "Elder Statesmen," intervened in a debate on India to offer a solemn warning to Indian agitators. He charged them with obstructing the British Government's plan to help India in preparing for full dominion home-rule, with moving people by Western catchwords, with committing a great crime against their fellow-countrymen and civilization. He refused to believe that Britain would leave 300,000,000 people of India to their fate in the hands of irresponsible agitators. He was of the opinion that the gradual extension of constitutional power in that country...
Alexander Woollcott: "Elsie Ferguson never seemed lovelier . . . She never played better in her life Mr. Blackmer's solemn and largely inert performance gave only infrequent evidence that he had caught the sense of this fine comedy or, if he had, that he could express...