Word: solemnization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...18th hole. But he made the mistake of playing the course instead of the weather. Ouimet faded and hooked his shots to keep them in the fairways. On the 23rd, Ouimet sank a 20-foot putt which put him 7 up. They played eight holes more, Ouimet solemn and quiet, Westland peering and stooping over his putts in an eccentric, futile drill. Ouimet was still 6 up at the 31st tee and when they halved that hole the match was over...
...church in Benton, 111., gathered the many friends of Stephen R. Patton. So. for his funeral. A quartet sang several hymns. The minister arose and preached the funeral sermon in a solemn, emotional voice, told how Stephen R. Patton had spent many wicked years before he became a Christian. In the mourners bench, behind piles of funeral wreaths, sat Stephen R. Patton himself. Tears gleamed in his eyes. Said he: ''It takes something like this to show a man how many friends he has." The friends had planned to give him a birthday party; he had begged for a funeral...
Before a hillside altar at French Lick, Ind. last week, kneeling while Bishop John A. Floersh of Louisville celebrated a solemn pontifical field Mass, were 550 delegates to the 49th annual convention of the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus. Representing 61 State councils, 2,565 subordinate councils and more than 600,000 members, the Supreme Council meets annually, reports on the year's work. Ever proud of its charitable doings, it told how it had maintained an employment bureau in its home city, New Haven, Conn., recording 43,128 placements during the last year. In three drought...
...Girl is flippantly human, sad with out being solemn or more than pardonably sentimental. When the girl (Sally Eilers) falls in love with the salesman, she reveals the state of her emotions by saying "Gee, but you're a funny guy!" Other good shots: Sally Eilers, feeling so guilty because she is going to have a baby that she cannot get excited over a new apartment; James Dunn, also feeling guilty about the baby, trying to persuade an expensive doctor to attend his wife...
...Benjamin Leiner, a skinny little Semite with a pallid, solemn face, had his first professional prizefight. Five years later he won the lightweight championship of the world by technically knocking out Freddie Welsh. In 1924, after a fight with Pal Moran in which he hurt his right hand but retained his championship, he retired. Said he: "My mother does not want me to fight any more...