Word: solemnization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forget your hatred for the President. Stop crying 'Fascist' every time he makes a move. Stop worrying about Reds in the White House. Because of your reckless hatred the minds of many American men and women are shut against your honest criticism." These words are a refreshing contrast to solemn warnings about the challenge to liberty, passionate defenses of the American system, and anguished cries about alien collectivisms...
...solemn in this joyous week, Netherlanders were rocking with laughter in their cafés at Dutch wags who thought up elaborate jokes like this: A man keeps his hat on as others take theirs off to toast Princess Beatrix, then, just as people begin to give him angry looks, takes off his hat and reveals he is wearing a "baby" hat underneath exactly resembling its "parent...
...court judgeship in 1933 because of his utility connections and for a district judgeship last year because he was too old (67), Lawyer Reames was satisfactory to conservative, 74-year-old Governor Martin on both counts. To the wary Governor, however, Alfred Evan Reames' chief qualification was his solemn promise not "under any circumstances" to run for Senator in the Democratic primary this spring...
Vincent Lopez, solemn, rotund dance-band maestro, has always been the soul of patriotism. For years he began or ended each night-club dance program with The Star-Spangled Banner, inviting his starched & spangled customers to clear their throats and sing. Nobody knew the words, and only a few sang; it usually sounded terrible. Finally, sensitive night-club owners asked him not to play it any more...
...Sullivan saw with violent clarity that in industrial Chicago the old styles of European architecture would not serve. Chicagoans to whom the noble pile of the Auditorium Building is part of the landscape and St. Louisans familiar with the ten-story Wainwright Building do not often pause for the solemn reflection that in 1889 and 1891 these were great architectural achievements-office buildings framed in structural steel. Louis Sullivan fathered the skyscraper. In 1899 in the Carson Pirie Scott Building he used the steel structure functionally, i. e., naturally, to provide horizontal bands of window space instead of unnecessary walls...