Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with ganging up to "buy" Negro votes, made some almost angry enough to vote against the bill. A Republican who did vote "No" was upstate New York's Wadsworth, one of two ex-Senators who have come down to the House (the other: borderline Ken tucky's solemn, long-jawed Robsion, who voted "Yes"). Rich, wise old Jim Wadsworth called anti-lynching an unenforceable, unconstitutional piece of Federal usurpation of State powers: Under the proposed bill, not lynchers but peace officers who let lynchings happen would be declared felons, subject to fines...
...wear & tear of Siegfried's "Forge Song" and Siegmund's stentorian "Wälse Wälse" without straining a capillary. But what impresses Wagnerites is his ability to color Wagner's mystical, mountain-glade poetry with just the right shade of Teutonic Weltschmerz, his solemn evocation of all the Nibelungenlied's nature-nourished gnomes and demigods. When Melchior sings, Wagnerites forget the Metropolitan's tattered backdrops and seem to see the green Rhine and the doom-cragged, primeval mountains of Gothic legend...
Having repudiated even Herbert Fleishhacker's lawyer, Anglo California also gave up its last connection with the name of Fleishhacker. Herbert's solid, solemn brother Mortimer, who resigned as president and board chairman last year, last week retired from the bank's directorate. The name of Fleishhacker appeared no longer to be a banking asset...
...clock Thursday night in Langdell Hall Courtroom Justice Roberts with two other federal judges will sit in solemn judgement as two clubs run off the final scene of a three-year elimination, which has involved sixty other clubs or a total of 480 would be lawyers...
...Said solemn Actor Walter Hampden, aged 60, after seeing his cinema debut as the Archbishop of Paris in The Hunchback of Notre Dame: "I saw myself act and heard myself talk for the first time in my life. I looked a little different than I thought I would and my voice didn't sound the way I thought it always did. ... I was nothing to make myself say I was wonderful; but then, I don't think I was awful either...