Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then there is Broadway Actor Ralph Bellamy soberly reading Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat (Victor, 4 sides), and Orson Welles smacking and grumbling solemn words from Pericles to Lincoln (No Man Is an Island; Decca, 10 sides). Less noisy: A Walk in the Sun (Disc, 6 sides), a chronicle ballad of the famed Texas 36th Division, sung by Composer Earl Robinson. Strictly for their fans is the patter of Jimmy Durante (Decca, 8 sides) and Bob Hope (Capitol, 8 sides...
...shall hereafter be convicted of a crime of murdering any Harvard graduate, Rhodes scholar, or student, except upon the testimony of the deceased in open court," the measure was entitled, "An act to restore peace, tranquility, and sanity to the United States," and was introduced "with the solemn declaration that it had nation-wide endorsement...
...cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself...
From the papal throne in the blazing baroque magnificence of St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Pius pronounced the ancient formula: "In the most holy name of the Trinity ... for the exaltation of the Catholic faith and the increase of the Christian religion. . . ." Then, with the solemn notes of the Te Deum, and the pomp of a papal High Mass, and the clamor of Roman church bells, Francesca Saverio Cabrini became the first U.S. saint...
...right, darling. I shall never travel in the stratosphere again." Bird-necked Professor Auguste Piccard made that solemn promise to his wife in 1932, just after he had ballooned to the stratosphere from Switzerland and landed with a wallop across the Alps. Last week, still stuck with his pledge, the Swiss scientist announced that he would try exploring in the opposite direction: next February he will head for the bottom of the ocean...