Word: solemnization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus was climaxed the solemn jubilee of Louis Lumière whose name means light and who has never claimed that he and his brother Auguste invented the cinema...
...behind the polished Washington desk of Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes. It was a great & grave occasion- the signing of the first tribal constitution under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (TIME, June 25, 1934). Secretary Ickes and Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier were as solemn as the Indians. Just as cameras were about to record the event for posterity a horrified Ickes press-agent spied, clinging to one Indian's ancestral costume, what seemed to be a thoroughly anachronistic price tag. In a flurry of embarrassment the chieftain's tag was ripped...
...editor of the Washington Post, which had reported the "price tag'' incident at the signing ceremony, went last week a solemn letter of reproach. "These costumes," it read in part, "are hereditary. That worn by Chief Charlo was inherited by him from his grandfather, Chief Little Claw, who as chief of all the Flatheads signed the Treaty of 1855. The ermine tails on this costume signified the rank of Chief Little Claw. Those worn by Sub-chief Bear Track were left to him according to the Indian custom of giving things away at time of death. . . . The plain...
...Rome solemn-faced denials were made that Dictator Mussolini was deliberately easing up on the Ethiopians and getting ready to smash toward Tana if on Nov. 18 the British at Geneva succeed in having League Sanctions applied on schedule. It was queer, dispatches from Addis Ababa observed, that Italian bombing planes, now well within operating range, not only had not bombed Ethiopia's Capital up to last week but had not even bombed Harar, where the local Ethiopian satrap was having suspected traitors flogged to death. Repeatedly second-string correspondents jumped the gun with rumors which produced last week...
...fifth consecutive week Africa's dreary little war supplied British politicians with material for solemn ruminations. If the British and their Navy meant business-if any real chance existed that His Majesty's Government would use their sea power to blockade and starve Italy as they once blockaded and starved Germany-then indeed everything else was secondary. Inside the massive head of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin the great issue continued slowly and comfortably to shape itself...