Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down on the luncheon table Ambassador Oumansky plumped his ambassadorial payroll. It listed five full-time diplomats, two military attaches, 18 miscellaneous employes, including chauffeur and servants. Then Oumansky insisted that Ambassador Messersmith make a solemn inspection of the Embassy. The old Parada mansion, though roomy and pretentious, was obviously not big enough to house hundreds of agents...
...London's Central Hall, Westminster, the organ played solemn music as the Labor delegates mustered for the Party's annual conference. Behind the platform hung an impressive banner proclaiming "A People's Peace." Crowds of young delegates, many of them in uniform, were eager to define policy and state where Labor stood. A general election, Britain's first in nine years, was in the offing. Labor thought it had a real chance...
...final march past. The "little man's" army, having waited four and a half years for an enemy who never came, finally "stood down" last week in a blaze of glory and gratitude. From the Home Guard's Colonel in Chief, King George VI, came a solemn tribute: "... A force . . . mighty in courage and determination." Said Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, the man who called the Guard to arms when the Germans were just across the "drink" and likely to come over any day: "Britain will never forget that in our dark hour, when your numbers were...
...Secretary, the State Department had a man who had a powerful resolution to do well. Ed Stettinius is not only friendly, energetic and loyal, but he has still another valuable trait, which was rooted in the days when he had wanted to become a parson. It was a solemn, almost reverential, respect for the responsibility of his new high office. Besides this he has one enormous asset: the general good will of the people of the U.S., who are most anxious for him to succeed, and are willing to give him every support...
...made a promise: to give the 33-year-old R.A.F. flyer's new symphony, which he showed Rodzinski last spring, one performance for every five enemy planes bagged (TIME, Aug. 28). Last week the bargain was fulfilled: the Philharmonic played the premiere of Commander Wooldridge's Solemn Hymn for Victory-and the Wing Commander appeared in person to take his bows. Critics and audience agreed that he was a more finished virtuoso with the 50-cal. machine gun than with the composer's pen, but applauded him for both achievements...