Word: solemnities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will bethink them sadly of the beauty of "lost causes"--the minuet, quadrille, polka, and other dances once softened by a delicate formalism and ritualistic sobriety now in disuse. Even an early nineteenth century dance manual showed sings of a growing decadence, the passing of the classical restraint and solemnity of the dance of puritanical epochs. Couples were admonished above all things, thus implying that it was not the custom, "to wear a pleasing countenance; for dancing is certainly supposed to be an enjoyment. But the somber faces of some might lead to the belief that it were a solemn...
House of Lords. Their Lordships began debate on the retention of the imperial preference duties agreed to during the Imperial Conference of last year (TIME, Oct. 1 et seq.)-The Duke of Devonshire, ex-Governor General of Canada, uttered a solemn warning when he declared that there was a feeling of uneasiness in the Dominions and that imperial preference could not be separated from the whole imperial policy...
...Jesse Livermore, young man with light hair, big back head and solemn face, knows more about stocks and such things than all others put together. So it is said. He sells or buys tens of thousands of shares at a time, and thousands follow when he says, "Buy" or "Sell."-ARTHUR BRISBANE...
...protest against the flagrant outrage done the Mother of God by recent widespread and blasphemous denials of the Virgin Birth of her Divine Son," Bishop McDevitt of Harrisburg, Pa., sang a solemn pontifical mass at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Manhattan. Archbishop Hayes presided...
...clock have been revealed and the cherished belief that it gained one minute a week regularly thus destroyed. Belated students hastening to nine o'clocks will derive small comfort if the clock indicates five minutes past--when it may possibly mean ten minutes past. And if perchance, its solemn gong should announce the arrival of ten o'clock at an unseemly, early hour, such as half-past nine, there will be wise and knowing shaking of heads instead of a healthy, jubilant rush for the doors. Ignorance has always been bliss for those who wish to live "happily ever after...