Word: solemnization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conclusion, let me give this solemn warning: There can be only one capital, Washington or Moscow. . . . There can be only one victor. If the Constitution wins, we win. But if the Constitution-stop! stop there-the Constitution can't lose! The fact is, it has already won, but the news has not reached certain ears...
...solemn lying in state of the body of George V evoked tremendous homage. Spontaneously Britons of all degrees hurried from Scotland. Wales, the English counties, London suburbs and all parts of the great metropolis to form a line eight-abreast which began more than a mile up the Thames Embankment and day & night filed sadly through Westminster Hall. It was so cold that middle-aged "Beefeaters" from the Tower and Gentlemen of the King's Guard wore their heaviest cloaks, but the four officers rigid at the corners of the bier stood in their uniforms only, chilled...
...funeral procession which wound slowly this week from Westminster Hall to Paddington Station by grey & graceful little Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, to whom was assigned as Lord-in-Waiting moose-tall Lord Howard of Penrith, onetime British Ambassador in Washington. For Adolf Hitler walked owl-solemn Baron Constantin von Neurath, who is not a Nazi. For Benito Mussolini stepped spruce Crown Prince Umberto. Tsar Boris of Bulgaria had to make his legs twinkle to keep up with the long strides of Swedish Crown Prince Gustaf. For Joseph Stalin walked Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. Only unexpected absentee...
Special train after special train bearing Their Majesties, Their Excellencies, Their Royal Highnesses. Their Graces. Their Reverences, Lords and Ladies, Right Honorables and commoners of renown chuffed slowly toward Windsor on the last solemn journey of George V. who founded the House of Windsor. That deed stands imperishably in history with such monoliths as PLANTAGENET. The late King was born Saxe-Coburg-and-Gotha. Very unobtrusively in His Majesty's funeral escort this week moved His Royal Highness Leopold Charles Edward George Albert, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-and-Gotha in Germany, Prince Royal of Great Britain and Ireland...
When newshawks twitted him on his long chase after his vessel, solemn Captain Kieff became huffy, remarked...