Word: solemnities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newly-elected Senator had been caught smoking in the Senate chamber. What sacrilege! to besmirch the sanctity of the room where Thomas Barton lived his dying years, where the Civil, Spanish, and Great Wars were conducted, where Webster, Clay, Sumner, and other great men of the past gathered in solemn conclave; where, indeed as Dickens once described, one could see "so many honorable members with swelled faces.... caused by the quantity of tobacco they contrive to stow within the hollow of the cheek. It is strange enough too, to see, an honorable gentleman leaning back in his tilted chair with...
...when it lives but does not flourish; many of those who write for it have more than usual talent. The importance of the Lampoon in life at Harvard, quite apart from its tradition, cannot be valued too highly. Few of us would want all Harvard undergraduates to appear as solemn and grave as they do in the serious publications. It is good to feel that the Lampoon is in such good hands this year
Today is the Gentleman's Easter. A month ago his sisters and his cousins and his aunts blossomed forth in the newest creations of millinery. Two weeks later, solemn Seniors donned the strange headgear known unaccountably as mortar-boards, and appeared in the Yard with a dignity that was the envy of underclassmen. Today more man is to have his turn, and he prays for the sunshine as eagerly as a Senior on the day of the Picnic. For today, by common consent and the decree of Harvard Square Haberdashery, Inc., is Straw...
...right is denied them, and racial antipathy will be kept open. If the Dyer Bill is defeated, it must be only because a more effective remedy has been produced. If it is passed, even though imperfect, it will at least have the value of putting on this crime the solemn stamp of the nation's disapproval...
...original Thanksgiving Day was sacred. We American have a lighthearted way of turning any holiday to merriment, no matter how, solemn it may have been in the past. After all this is not an unfortunate trait, for an occasion may be honored better by enjoyment than by solemn sighs; and that especially if we keep in mind--as who can not at this moment of history--our gratitude for a successful year...