Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday morning during the solemn rites in the sunny Eliot Kirkland triangle the Class of 1940 applauded when the Senior Orator said that "America must not again by dragged into the anarchy that is Europe." Two bouts later, in the mardi-gras atmosphere of the Stadium, they booed the 1915 Ivy Orator's incongruous and long-winded speech when they discovered that he was no longer being funny, but was speaking in deadly earnest. Presumably they booed because his empty rhetoric and talk of not being "too proud to fight" was a stale attempt to blur the complex issues...
...celebration was ushered in officially when the massed ships of the Portuguese Navy, an American squadron and a Brazilian warship joined in a series of 21-gun salutes that shattered windows throughout the Lisbon harbor district. Then followed a solemn Te Deum in the Lisbon Cathedral with the Knights of Malta in their scarlet tunics, Army and Navy officials in dress uniform, city fathers in robes of office, and the gold-braided Diplomatic Corps carefully arranged to keep belligerent envoys apart. President General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona shared prominence in the Cathedral with General Francisco Jose Pinto, special envoy...
...anti-French thought. He had no personal liking for the French, used to vacation in the Austrian Tyrol and Italy, caused a mild scandal in 1938 by letting his picture be taken bathing near Bolzano with a certain Frau Rosa Weisinger (see cut, p. 32). Leopold had the most solemn assurances from Adolf Hitler that his country would not be invaded, and right up to May 10, 1940, based his policy on them. And Leopold's policy was Belgium's policy, for, as a political King, he ruled...
...Solemn Ritual...
...solemn ritual of Commencement Day with its many traditional elements will include the participation of University officers, faculty members, representatives of Church and State, and special guests, in a formal procession to the opening of the ceremonies at 10 o'clock by the sheriff for Middlesex County, and a Latin oration by a Senior...