Word: solemnization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...filled U. S. sports pages for three days while Pitcher Dean reiterated: "I'm not goin' to sign nothin'!" Baseball's noisiest dispute since Babe Ruth was fined $5,000 for insubordination in 1925, the Dean-Frick fight ended after three days in a ludicrously solemn compromise. Witnessed by two dozen newshawks, President Frick asked Pitcher Dean whether he had made the remarks attributed to him by the Belleville Advocate. As a reward for repudiating them, Pitcher Dean, though he would still "not sign nothin'," was reinstated...
...solemn, you-may-be-next propaganda of psychiatry has pretty well trained the public, the hard-boiled included, not to make jokes about the insane. The theme of A Mind Mislaid is that the public has been overtrained, now takes mental illness much too seriously. A nervous breakdown, says 75-year-old Author Brown, is no worse than typhoid fever or double pneumonia. In the genial, conversational vein of his entertaining miscellanies of 19th Century New York history he now offers a relaxing account of his own three-year stay in famed Bloomingdale Hospital to prove the point...
...solemn moaning fills the warm air. It oozes into Lowell study rooms and library. It jumps the street over to Winthrop's lighted cram centers. Inhuman, the sound swells and fades, changes catch with a sobbing descent, or rasps anew to tortured heights. Angry heads appear, and irritated voices dispute with the sound, imploring or threatening...
...Pittsburgh, the Alex Smith Memorial Trophy for lowest qualifying score went to solemn young Byron Nelson of Reading, Pa., whose 139 for 36 holes topped the field by three strokes. . . . Officials of the Professional Golfers Association were pleased when three of the players they had selected for the Ryder Cup team that will play England this month and four others named as eligible for it were in the round of eight. . . . British-born Harry Cooper last year broke the record for the U. S. Open by two strokes, lost the title when Tony Manero broke it by four. Last week...
...Coronation Year. The 169th Royal Academy exhibition has been officially open for a month, yet not until last week did attendance figures begin to approach normal. Having shaken the Coronation confetti out of their hair, the public trooped in to see what, after sitting for .weeks in solemn judgment, the Academy's hanging committee had chosen...