Word: solemnization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four-Power Pact opens a new phase in European history!" "Moreover," cried Il Duce and drew crashing cheers, "this pact is not limited to the signatory powers. Collaboration is its ultimate aim, so it is open to everybody and first of all to the United States!"* Collaboration-a solemn promise by Italy, Britain, France and Germany to consult and collaborate for the political and economic peace of the world-proved to be about all that is left of the Four-Power Pact after an emasculation which Il Duce (once an editor) described last week as "editing." To friends of Disarmament...
...percussive volley. Ellington's own soft-spoken orders are a far cry from those used by white bandmasters. At rehearsals, where the routine request would be for a presto or an allegro con spirito, Ellington says. "Get off, now- Sock it!" Where symphonic conductors would call for a solemn andante the hot jazz command is, "Come on, boys, go to church...
...Vagabond rose, prophecy welling within him. "Gentlemen. Our Alma Mata doesn't care." He spoke with solemn dignity, stressing every word. No head stirred under its halo of smoke. No dull eye answered to his rhetoric...
...plain last week when the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of the Sciences held its annual meeting. To Chancellor Hitler, Physicist Max Planck, the Society's president and a Nobel Laureate, sent this salute: "The Society begs leave to tender reverential greetings to the Chancellor and its solemn pledge that German science is also ready to cooperate joyously in the reconstruction of the new National State...
...last winter when hard times intervened and it was shelved again. Last week Manager Gatti-Casazza generously permitted the University of Michigan to steal a march on him. The world premiere of Merry Mount was given in Ann Arbor in concert form, climax of a four-day festival. Solemn as Supreme Court judges, University students sat behind a bench backstage to sing the Puritans' choral music. Ann Arbor's festival singers sat on the stage on either side of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Composer Howard Hanson was there to conduct, waving his angular arms about to build...