Word: solemnization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life-sized, representing the waternymph in Milton's Comiis, Sabrina was presented to Amherst College in 1857 by one Joel .Hayden. For her nudity Sabrina became the object of many a practical joke. In 1890 the college authorities ordered her removed. Soon there began a series of frantic, tenacious, solemn battles over Sabrina, between the odd-numbered and even-numbered classes. She was first captured and hidden away in 1893. Thereafter Sabrina became known as the ''Goddess of Lord Jeffs." There arose Sabrina-traditions. Those in possession were "Sabrina Men" and must keep the statue hidden, appointing annually...
Education has too long been taken for granted in America. Democratic theory has enshrined it as an indisputable right; but there is no right with-out duty. It is the inescapable and solemn task of both institutions and individuals to fulfill that duty...
Education has too long been taken for granted in America. Democratic theory has enshrined it as an indisputable right; but there is no right without duty. It is the inescapable and solemn task of both institutions and individuals to fulfill that duty...
...happened. Faithless will probably leave Miss Bankhead about where she was before. She has a more full-bodied role than in Thunder Below, Tarnished Lady, My Sin and The Devil and The Deep, and a better leading man (Robert Montgomery). Otherwise, the picture is in the Bankhead tradition, a solemn sexual mumbo-mumbo of wealth impoverished and beauty in distress...
...uninvited guest had mingled with that company, first amusing them with witticisms but finally enacting a Poe-like "Masque of the Red Death," there would have been havoc throughout the land. Boards of directors would have rushed to urgent, solemn meetings. The stockmarket would have roared downward. Life insurance companies would have faced an emergency. For the guests at Lynnewood Hall last week included not just a dozen or so millionaires but at least 100 of the country's richest men. Among those who broke bread with the Master of the Hall that night were Harvey Samuel Firestone, Frank...