Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the organ's first notes trembled into the hush, began the solemn and ancient pageantry with which the Roman Catholic Church sends its kings, its great men, its princes of the clergy from this world. The East Side's Al Smith lay below the sanctuary, in a shrouded casket on a catafalque flanked by six tall, flickering candles. The altar before it was bright with the purple garb of bishops and the monsignori...
...growth of Nazi-Fascist in fluence and the increasing application of Nazi-Fascist methods in a country ... at the very time that those forces of aggression are drawing ever closer in final defeat and judgment in Europe and elsewhere in the world. . . . The Argentine Government has repudiated solemn inter-American obligations...
...diplomatic shuffles, the White House announced the appointments of nine U.S. envoys, five of them seasoned career men. To the Polish Government in London went suave Careerist Arthur Bliss Lane, 50, an appointment which should put Polish-Americans in a good election-year mood. To The Netherlands went solemn Stanley Hornbeck, 61, onetime chief of the State Department's Far Eastern division; to Bolivia, Walter Thurston, 48, of Colorado; to Colombia, John Cooper Wiley, U.S. Minister to Latvia and Estonia until 1941; to El Salvador, John F. Simmons, 52, who began as a U.S. consular clerk...
...speech was a solemn, serious, hard-hitting countercharge. Tom Dewey was not going to crack any jokes at the brilliant level of Bob Hope, or any other. Cried he: "I shall not join my opponent in his descent to mudslinging. . . . I will never divide America...
...London, after eleven months of solemn deliberation, the United Nations War Crimes Commission announced a list of 350 Nazis who had committed crimes abroad. Unlisted were Hitler, Himmler, Göring and Goebbels...