Word: solemnization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed young Democratic Congressman from Texas repeating an ancient and awful parliamentary ritual. A legislative neophyte in his second term, he should, by rights, have been sitting quietly in a back row listening to his elders debate great issues. Instead, he was leaping recklessly forward to invoke the most solemn provision of the Constitution to remove from the Cabinet its most venerable member...
...Congressmen, editors, lawyers, leaders in every field vied to heap the highest praise upon the infirm old gentleman who lives in a red brick house on a Washington side street. To this outpouring, however, he paid no heed. Only when his eight colleagues on the court wrote him a solemn letter of farewell did he publicly reply...
...coming shadow, equipped with the dignity which Presidents so frequently require. His hands were white and soft upon his lap. On Mrs. Hoover's kind face matronly warmth was mingled with, but did not in fringe upon, a hauteur fitting for her station. Other faces on the walls ? solemn Andrew William Mellon, wise Elihu Root, martial John Joseph Pershing, temperate Frank Billings Kellogg?made it apparent that the distinction of appearing on a de Laszlo canvas could only be surpassed by that of appearing on a postage stamp. King Fuad of Egypt was painted from the side, against...
...Beware, ye demons of a vanishing Empire! We warn officers of the British Government always to move about armed. At a signal we will kill marked officers. Congressmen [members of the Indian National Congress] do not interfere without solemn duties...
...lacrosse players, 132 by dramatic club members, 186 by oarsmen and 241 by college journalists. For president, the Coaches Association chose Dr. Marvin Allen ("Mai") Stevens of Yale to succeed J. F. ("Chick") Meehan who recently resigned from N. Y. U. to coach at Manhattan College. Tall, quiet, solemn, Mai Stevens went to Yale as a transfer from Washburn College. Kan., paid his tuition as night watchman in an undertaking establishment. He was halfback of the 1923 Yale team, started coaching at Yale when Tad Jones retired in 1928. An interne at the New Haven Hospital last year...