Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dedicated (this was the vox humana stop) a new Recorder of Deeds building in Washington, paying tribute to the country's No. 1 colored officeholder, solemn, influential William J. Thompkins-a ceremony that buttoned thousands of Negro votes into his pocket...
Editor of the Courier-Journal since last January is lanky, solemn Herbert Agar, 43, onetime diplomat, novelist, critic, historian. For the last six months the Courier-Journal has been a fiery advocate of aid to Britain. Editor Agar was one of 30 U. S. citizens who announced last June that they were in favor of immediate war on Germany...
...Once again you are tuned in on a concert by the no doubt world-renowned Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street-whose members have consecrated their lives to the preservation of the music of the Three Bs-Barrelhouse, Boogie-woogie and the Blues. Present with us on this solemn occasion: Mademoiselle Dinah Diva Shore, who starts fires by rubbing two notes together; Maestro Paul Laval and his ten termite-proof wood winds; Dr. Gino Hamilton, as our chairman and intermission commentator; and Dr. Henry Levine, with his Dixieland Little Symphony of eight men and no-Period. As the Society...
...advise" him to go home at once (TiME, Sept. 9), Journalist Brailsford has no illusions that snaring the U. S. is easy. His method is to state, with great clarity, the peril to the U. S. if England falls. He points out that in that case no commitment, however solemn, short of America's participation in the war as an ally, can bind the British Fleet to sail to Canada or the U. S. Only if the U. S. were fighting by Britain's side could British sailors feel guaranteed that they and their ships would be used...
During the big-time grass-court tournaments this summer, solemn, steady Don McNeill, an honor student at Kenyon College, was overshadowed by long-legged, happy-go-lucky Frank Kovacs, a California comet whose spectacular shots and silly monkeyshines made him a favorite with the galleries. But last week, in the National Singles at Forest Hills, L. I., Don McNeill came into...