Word: solemnization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgium 350, Poland 700, Czechoslovakia 670 to which are added . . . thousands of armored cars, heavy guns . . . poison gases. . . . Has not Germany more right, in view of its defenselessness and lack of weapons, to demand security than the armed States interbound by coalitions? . . . Germany is ready to join any solemn non-aggression pact . . . and is ready immediately to endorse . . . the American President's magnanimous proposal to put up the powerful United States as a guarantor of peace...
...army takes pity on your ignorant soldiers, and delivers this solemn command: Cease opposing the Japanese and Manchukuans. Break away from Marshal Chiang Kaishek. . . . Should you not separate yourselves from your army at an early date and become a new people, our great Japanese-Manchukuan allied army will advance...
...Walt Disney's simple ideas for Mickey Mouse. In the complicated translation to cinema form, 175 understudies do most of the drawing far better than Disney could. In his $150,000 Hollywood studio, the preparation of a Mickey Mouse short is much the same as for any solemn Hollywood picture. When the script is finished, "animators" draw Mickey's attitudes as at the beginning and end of each action. "Inbetweeners" draw the graduated poses between. "Inkers" place a transparent square of celluloid on the drawing and outline it boldly in ink on the celluloid. The first square...
Commander Macneil studied at the University of Michigan, sidetracked into electronics, plopped in the Wartime U. S. Navy. He is a solemn, slight man turning 50, whose friends consider him commercially hapless because he has let others profit from his inventions. Friends therefore have put a ward over Commander & Mrs. Macneil. Their "managing secretary" is Mrs. Ruth Mitchell Knowles, sister of General William ("Billy") Mitchell...
...with that solemn diffidence becoming to solitary interpretations of Olympian dicta, that one ventures to place an original construction on Dean Hanford's affidavit in re the evil of tutoring bureaus. If, however, temerity be not forbidden and the impressions of that temerity be not vain, one is tempted to suggest that the two humorous undergraduate publications look to their laurels. Youth has been quick to appraise and to emulate the form if not the substance of the diversion common to distraught journalists, hapless explorers, and brilliant financiers. To the hoax it has brought the charm of unflagging devotion...