Word: solemnization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sakonnet Point, where rocky capes bracket a two-mile beach, off Brenton's Reef Lightship and the Narragansett shore where curious eddies twist in the shallow surf, there began last week the solemn business of picking a yacht to defend the America's Cup next September. After a week of trials, to be followed by another series in July, a third in August, the New York Yacht Club's selection committee had seen this year's three contenders under sail six times...
...Indians have only 47,000,000 acres, and many of them are dependent on government bounty. Indian Commissioner John Collier, agitating a New Deal for Indians, has for months been shuttling back and forth between the palefaces on Capitol Hill and the redmen on the reservations, holding solemn pow wows in both places about a new law (TIME, March 12). That law would give them an independent system of courts, buy new land for the landless and, in general, impose upon them added responsibility for their own welfare. Solemnly the Indian chiefs listened to Commissioner Collier. Some rejoiced...
...distinction of being one of the few French Deputies ever unseated for bribery by his legislative peers. Later he was discreetly elected Senator. Lately he reached the U. S. from Asia on a tour around the world. Paris chuckled last week at news that "Momo," pulling a solemn face, had visited the U. S. Senate, steered by California's Hiram Johnson who guided his flaccid right hand into the rough-textured paw of Vice President John Garner. Paris was not surprised that "Momo," before reaching Washington, had visited the Chicago Century of Progress and care fully inspected that show...
...grassy, wooded Trophy Point high above the Hudson at West Point one afternoon last week, the U. S. Military Academy's graduating class of 250 sat tense in full-dress uniform, rank on solemn rank. Parents, friends, generals flanked them beneath the trees. Under a flag-draped marquee at the base of the Battle Monument,. Wartime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker rose to warn of the world's unrest. Then he stepped down to hand out the white, ribbon-tied diplomas...
...Today, beneath these immemorial column, we are met together in solemn conclave, for a purpose, whether Republican or Democrat, Capitalist or Agriculturalist, Eliotite or Dunsterian, Northern or Amateur, History and Lit., or Physics, Black man or White man, Eastern or Western, or even mid-western, we are united in a cause...