Word: solemnization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bumbling Alexander Woollcott, the founder-of the Enemies of Modern Aviation, Inc. Last week, however, connoisseurs recognized an unusually earnest thrust from the White rapier in a New Yorker paragraph which gave the President and his Court plan a pinking far more effective than the bludgeonings of his customarily solemn critics. Full text...
...Spain for his zeal in spreading their languages, literatures and histories. He has written or edited more than 20 textbooks and anthologies, is editor of Henry Holt & Co.'s Spanish series, has been president of the Italian Historical Society of Massachusetts, the Dante Society and (1931-33) the solemn American Academy of Aris & Sciences...
...Kingdom & Empire are confident that the right people have now been golden-framed. Last week Buckingham Palace was a busy hive of active preparation for the gorgeous, solemn Coronation scheduled for May 12. The King had regular fittings of his various Crowns and Coronation garments, as did the Queen. Tightly boarded up already is Westminster Abbey and inside carpenters thwacked furiously, erecting that ominous-sounding platform, "The Scaffold," on which Their Majesties are joyously to be crowned...
...credit of companies in the TVA area . . . destruction . . . inevitable . . . cruel jest." But by this time the sheer momentum of Playwright Arent's show has carried the day, dramatically at least, against Mr. Willkie. Concluding with the injunctions which currently are hamstringing TVA activity, Power closes on a solemn political note when the entire cast shouts: WHAT WILL THE SUPREME COURT...
...biggest funeral since Lenin's" was promptly got under way for "Sergo"-Stalin's nickname for Ordzhonikidze. Other programs were switched off and Soviet radio stations broadcast elaborate eulogies of Sergo. Accompanied by an endless dirge, a solemn death watch over the body was begun, the Dictator himself joining in a guard which was changed every few hours, maintained day & night, with Big Reds clamoring for the honor of standing at the four corners of the bier while tens of thousands shuffled past...