Word: solemnities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...China the ancient and honorable game of Mah Jongg is used to settle many disputes and problems. More than one man has, by being careless with an East Wind, found himself sitting in solemn silence in the dull, dark dock of a pestilential prison with a lifelong lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock of a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block...
...possible, of course, for a man occupying a high public position to hold opinions unbiased by political main chances. But in the present case, after a continuously rumbling presidential boom, after the frequent closeted conferences at which "nothing of a political nature was discussed", after the solemn prognostications of political seers as to the effect of the governor's approval or veto, the evidence is strong that his opinion was political as well as personal. And yet his approval would seem highly impolitic unless Governor Smith has a keener eye than most men. To secure the Democratic nomination...
Seniors, for all their epithet of "Solemn", are not usually an entirely serious-minded clan; and the proposals for reforming the University that were expressed in last year's questionnaires, are not all of them in deadly earnest. One for example, urged that Radcliffe should be incorporated into the University, so that Harvard might profit by the advantages of co-education as it is known in the West. Yet on the whole the 1922 First Annual Report, which reprints many of these brief reform-bills, is a storehouse of valuable suggestions from en whose ideas were formed on the best...
...maturity and this inexperience in my son, combined with his tendency toward exaggeration, make me feel that it would be dangerous to allow him to concern himself, at present, in foreign affairs." Bismarck remarks: " He is a man who would like to have a birthday every day, or solemn processions, or receptions, or parades, and, in his haughtiness, the role of the world's arbiter would be to his liking...
...season and observed the laughing, joking, careless manner of the groups of singers and musicians whom you would encounter, you might easily vow that it was impossible properly to put on so many productions with such an air of levity prevailing-an air so different from the orthodox solemn bustle of " efficiency." You would, if you looked deeper, observe beneath all the care less lounging and joviality, a hard, stern pressure, relaxed when not needed, but tightened with severe discipline and promptness when the moment of work arrived. Singer, musician and stage official will have ten minutes of leisure. During...