Word: solemnities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visited the Lateran Palace. Then back to the Vatican he went, as quietly as he had come. Next day the Pope, robed in the full majesty of his Pontificate, in cream-colored silk cloak, gold-&-silver-embroidered, crowned with the Triregnum (triple crown), closed his golden jubilee with a solemn mass in St. Peter's Basilica, where 70.000 Catholics cheered him. Then he beatified the relics of Father John Ogilvie, Scottish priest hanged by the Calvinists 300 years...
Hushed and solemn was the Senate chamber when the final Vare vote came. In the gallery sat William Bauchop Wilson, onetime (1913-21) Secretary of Labor Democratic contestant for the Vare seat. . . . . Before the roll call was finished, Vare was hobbling out of the room. Blind Senator Schall of Minnesota groped his way to him, embraced him consolingly. In his ears rang bells for a roll call that would dismiss (66 to 15) the Wilson contest...
...truly declared that the House had finished its program. When Senator Jones's turn came to speak for the Senate, he repeated the historic phrase: "Mr. President, the Senate has completed its work-" Then he qualified: "-as far as possible." It was all the others present on this solemn occasion could do to keep from outright laughter. Senator Jones, according to Congressman Tilson, wore his "best poker face." President Hoover rounded out the ritual by saying: "I thank you. I have no further communication to make to the Congress at this time." The comedy of the White House scene...
...James Edward Freeman, Tennessee's Thomas Frank Gailor, South Dakota's Hugh Latimer Burleson, Chicago's Charles Palmerston Anderson. On the 16th ballot the secretary declared Chicago's Anderson had received the necessary 68 votes and two over. Ninety-three* Episcopal voices joined in a solemn doxology. Charles Palmerston Anderson, 65, was born in Kemptville, Ontario, did not move to the U. S. till 1891. In 1900 he was elected Bishop Coadjutor of Chicago and became Bishop of the diocese in 1905 on the death of Bishop William Edward McLaren. Bishop Anderson is high-church...
...Cambridge, Mass., atop the solemn, Georgian bulk of Harvard Hall there is a cupola where, one morning long ago, early risers were astonished to behold a horse & buggy. In another Harvard Hall, banquet room of the Boston Harvard Club, there were assembled, one night last week, some 400 members of the Yale and Harvard Clubs of Boston, the Yalemen guests of the Harvardmen. Each alumni body had brought along its university president. All understood it to be the first meeting of its kind in history...