Word: solemnization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britons were deliberately taking a humorous view of the European Crisis was a major fact in London last week. In the House of Commons, however, more seriousness was in evidence. In awful dignity the Prime Minister arose and spoke. "I do not deny," came Neville Chamberlain's solemn admission, "that my original belief in the League as an instrument of preserving peace has been profoundly shaken...
Prince Johannes zu Loewenstein is not a roulette player himself. Scion of an ancient noble German line, he is a 37-year-old Doctor of Philosophy who lives in Vienna, a brother of Hubertus Loewenstein, prominent German Catholic. Passing through Baden two years ago, tall, solemn Prince Loewenstein stopped at the casino to watch a roulette table in action. He was impressed by the jitters of notetakers who tried to write down not only the numbers which turned up, but their colors, their positions on the transverse and vertical rows of the betting cloth and various other group affiliations. There...
...week at Ardmore, Pa. to vie for her crown. On the navy-blue ice of the Philadelphia Skating Club's elegant new rink, the five little ladies, all under 21, traced out their prescribed school figures (first half of the program) with such hairline accuracy that the five solemn judges almost required the services of a Philadelphia lawyer to decide which performance was the best...
...they competed in the free-skating competition, a spirited five-minute exhibition of varied steps skated to music. Free skating is Audrey Peppe's forte. To the tune of the Hungarian Rhapsody, she delighted the crowd with flaring spins, jumps, dance steps. But Joan Tozzer so impressed the solemn judges with the simplicity and smoothness of her free-skating repertory that they gave her performance almost as many points as Miss Peppe's. When the two-day totals were tallied, Joan Tozzer was awarded the crown by the slim margin of one-tenth of a point...
Last week Salome was revived at the Met, with buxom Australian-born Marjorie Lawrence in the role of Strauss's necrophilic heroine. Soprano Lawrence, who had been coached by Japanese Dancer Nimura, peeled herself like a true Judean temptress, ended unabashed in nothing much but a black net. Solemn music critics agreed that Lawrence was both vocally and visually one of the most lavishly endowed of all Salomes...