Word: solemnities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have not seen the papers today and, therefore, I do not know when I am scheduled to resign, but I will say that I'm going back to London with the expectation of staying until I come home."?Ambassador George Harvey, with a solemn face...
Premier Mussolini despatched an ultimatum to the Greek Government and demanded an answer within 24 hours: 1) Apologies of ample and official nature to be presented to the Italian Government through the legation in Athens, by the highest military authorities. 2) Solemn funeral ceremonies to be celebrated in honor of the victims of the massacre in the Catholic Cathedral at Athens, with attendance of all members of the Greek Cabinet. 3) Honors to the Italian flag to be rendered by the Greek fleet in the waters of Piraeus to the Italian Naval Division, which will go there for this purpose...
...Elks and the Moose having refused to buy the 15 buildings of Valparaiso University, at Valparaiso, Ind., to save the University from financial collapse, the buildings have been offered to the Ku Klux Klan in solemn Konklave at Kokomo. In the meantime Henry K. Brown, formerly President, son of the founder, and member of the realty company which owns all the stock in the school, has commenced proceedings to regain control of the buildings. The Invisible Empire says nothing...
...models in professional hilarity. He takes his post in the Winter Garden where the current Passing Show unrolls its gorgeous length. The screaming point is reached when one Roy Cummin gs, in the manner of a concert tenor, walks slowly from the wings, heaving with the impending agony of solemn singing. He opens his mouth for the first rush of song?and falls on his face. The audience dissolves in tears of frantic delight...
...Times: "On an appropriate morning, since this is Independence Day, the English speaking public of two hemispheres will read of the solemn ceremony at which the tablet was unveiled to the memory of the great American Ambassador. . . . There is a date of supreme importance to the calendar of Anglo-Sax-ondom more recent than that of Independence Day, and it is that one on which America entered the War and threw herself into the struggle for right and justice...