Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Solemn little André Mathieu, who speaks no English, started practicing the piano at the age of three, learned to write musical notes before he could write words. When he was seven the Quebec government sent him to study for a spell in Paris. In Montreal, where he lives with his father, mother and sister, he spends his spare time playing with tin soldiers and following the latest European war news. A bright student, specially interested in poetry and history, he has gotten all his general education from private tutors. Unlike many a composer three times...
Bare as a fresh-scrubbed deck was the story of First Mate Warren W. Rhoads, who wrote a solemn, copyrighted history of the trip for the New York Times and the North American Newspaper Alliance Inc. Of their stay in Bergen: "Mrs. Harriman, our United States Minister to Norway, came aboard, a very fine lady. She thanked us all for the way we conducted ourselves . . . and said our State Department was grateful. ... I was badly in need of a haircut and so were the rest of the crew, so we asked for a barber." Ashore went First Mate Rhoads...
...Lincoln In Illinois (RKO) falters through the Great Emancipator's frontier youth, does not hit its solemn stride until long-legged, melancholy Lawyer Lincoln stalks in to meet tightlipped, go-getting Mary Todd. From then on, it is dedicated to the proposition that its doom-ridden hero was nagged into greatness by an ambitious wife...
...four little Eleanor was banned from Warwick Square for kicking in the belly a gardener who tried to prevent her wrecking a flower bed. Her father, who told her macabre fairy stories and took her to prize fights, encouraged her "to be cheeky before solemn statesmen," allowed her to bounce up & down on the lord chancellor's woolsack. But "if we were naughty," says Lady Eleanor of herself and friends, "we were certainly never nasty...
Robert was the serious one, a solemn child who vainly tried to interest his chums in chess. Chess, and the fire-horses of old Engine Company 10 were his youthful diversions-and No. 10's firemen eventually gave him a complete list of fire signals when the family sailed for the Philippines. (Returning home alone from Manila for school, he made himself a nuisance aboard an Army transport trying to get up chess games...