Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston every night. Soon Editor Canham offered a suggestion: let the grown-up reporters cover the news ; you tell us what you think of it. Kenneth thereupon got into the groove. One of his stories began: "This story starts one winter night in 1942 in a He waggled a solemn finger at his contemporaries : "I think it's pretty important to know just why this conference is being held. And if you don't know the purpose of it, don't feel bad, because a lot of adults don't either." His eye sharpened...
...carnal, devout, intense Dean of St. Paul's. Of Death-whether in his famous "For-whom-the-bell-tolls" sermon, or in many poems of which this one (reprinted from Reader's Companion, edited by Louis Kronenberger-Viking, $2) is a-distinguished example-he wrote with solemn grandeur, and a consoling lack of fear...
...that upon receipt of President Truman's proclamation a religious service would be held at a time to be announced some time today, and that classes would be dismissed during the time of the service. Official Harvard observance of the end of the European war would be short and solemn, it was indicated...
Later the 69th's division commander, stocky, solemn, Major General Emil F. Reinhardt, crossed the Elbe in one of several flimsy racing barges commandeered from a German boathouse. Next day the V Corps commander, Major General Clarence Huebner, arrived and was presented with a tattered Soviet flag carried all the long way from Stalingrad. By that time the place was swarming with G.I.s and the fraternization was uproarious. Both the G.I.s and the U.S. brass hats learned that Russians are the world's most enthusiastic proposers of toasts, and the most capable consumers. The supply of vodka seemed...
Chilly, musty, 875-year-old Christ Cathedral, Canterbury, glittered with medieval pageantry. Trumpeters, clad in blue and gold, blew fanfares; bishops paced in scarlet robes. Finally, the two-hour ritual, older than the Tales of Chaucer, reached its solemn climax...