Word: solemnities
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...greatest singularity is its rule that no student may come to Assumption unless he speaks fluently both French and English. Classes are conducted either in French or English. Thus Assumption has won the sobriquet of "only French college in the U. S." It was in Nimes, France, one solemn morning in 1851, that the first Augustinians of the Assumption took their public vows. The vigorous doubt of Voltaire and the science of Diderot had troubled Catholic France. The Assumptionist Fathers swore to combat irreligion in Europe, to missionize in the East. From the Balkans to the Dead Sea they established...
...Pantagruel, "a very gallant and proper man of his person, only that he was a little lecherous, and naturally subject to a kinde of disease, which at that time they called lack of money." Together these uncommonly good fellows rollicked and rioted over land and sea, playing havoc with solemn industrious citizenry, making mock of bump tious clergy and royalty. Pantagruel's father, Gargantua, had set the pace, rid ing into battle upon a Numidian mare whose tail was so long that by whisking it a few times she knocked down a forest. During the battle, Captain Tripet, enemy...
...French cruiser Tourville steamed westward across the Atlantic last week bearing home the body of Myron Timothy Herrick, late U. S. Ambassador to France. Manhattan prepared to receive it with solemn honors, in which France's dead Foch was to share. In Ohio waited a grave...
...flowers, no music, no women-such was the Spartan order of the day in the U. S. Embassy at Paris last week, when three most solemn funeral orations were pronounced over the flag-draped coffin of Myron Timothy Herrick of Cleveland, beloved and glamor-crowned Ambassador. Greatly impressed by the fact that the late Marshal Ferdinand Foch ordered "No flowers!" (TIME, April 1), Mr. Herrick said when his own death drew nigh, "I also want no flowers...
...silk was the bride's dress, and of silk were the speculations of many a Cheney.* Handsome, solemn, gray-haired Charles Cheney, President of Cheney Bros., thought with satisfaction of a letter he had received that week: "The committee recommends that the Craftsmanship Medal be awarded to the Cheney Brothers for the beauty of design and texture in their modern machine woven silks." At the top of the letter was a handsome design: a Doric capital and shaft supported by an American eagle with outspread wings. Beneath this was engraved, "The American Institute of Architects...