Word: solemnization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robinson of Arkansas, Borah of Idaho, Johnson of California. McNary of Oregon, Logan of Kentucky, Wagner of New York, Barkley of Kentucky, Norris of Nebraska, Hastings of Delaware. Most of them at one time or another had sat on State or Federal benches. For a moment they sat in solemn silence while a clerk announced that the House had passed and asked the Senate's concurrence in bills for the relief of John Thomas Simpkin, P. Jean des Garennes, Christopher Cott, Seth B. Simmons and others. Then Sergeant at Arms Chesley W. Jurney reported to the Senate that...
Last week Leo Thomas Crowley had a good laugh on his fellow bankers. In solemn conclave at a meeting of the American Bankers Association in Chicago last summer they had resolved that in their "deliberate judgment" deposit in surance involved dangers both "genuine and serious." And ever since Jan. 1 when limited Federal deposit insurance became effective for $15,345,832,955 in 54,000,000 accounts, the bankers have been holding their breath waiting for the first crash. Up to this week not one of the 13,431 insured banks throughout the land had closed its doors...
University. No. 2 Harvard administrator is Kenneth Ballard ("Cotton-top") Murdock, 38, professor of English and dean of the faculty of arts & sciences. Son of a Boston banker, he is solemn, efficient, popular, scholarly, and the author of two books on Increase Mather. He has been President Conant's warm friend since boyhood, was best man at his wedding. But their relations were strained for a time last year by James Conant's shy embarrassment when, not long after congratulating Friend Murdock on his certain election to Harvard's presidency, he himself got the job. Some Harvardmen...
...Joyous Season (by Philip Barry; Arthur Hopkins, producer) is a solemn and sometimes sprightly investigation of the spiritual life of a family of shell-backed Bostonians. The Parleys live in a dingily magnificent mansion of Beacon Street. Their farm on the Merrimac River and the possibility that existence may contain more for them than security on a "careful, calm, contented four percent" are two of the things that they remember when the maverick of the family, Sister Christina (Lillian Gish), arrives from the nunnery to spend Christmas. Before Christina arrives, the Parleys are worried mainly because they think...
...miracle play." The last act shows John Loving and his second self praying beneath a crucifix. That John Loving has conquered his macabre demon can be seen from the fact that Actor Stanley Ridges is groveling on the floor. In Days Without End, Playwright O'Neill makes a solemn, dramatic and excitingly ambitious effort to suggest that, for the problem of human duality-which he represented with masks in The Great God Brown, wraiths in Emperor Jones and asides in Strange Interlude-Christianity is still an adequate solution. Theatre Guild audiences who liked Ah Wilderness are likely to find...