Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sergeant Major Couture rushed to his commanding officer. Major Charles Edward Gernaey, reported his find. Washington and London were informed. Yes, the paper had been missed. Both men were rushed to Washington. There, they took solemn oaths of secrecy...
...devices constructed on such engineering principles as this: "The strength of a piece of string, as of a chain, lies in its weakest part, and surely it is wisdom to cut this out and tie in a stronger piece." In 1934 London's Ideal Homes Exhibition included one solemn Robinson exhibit which proved a sensation: a carefully constructed, full-size Robinson house fitted with Robinson gadgets. One of them: a baby-washer made of revolving stands, one for the baby, the other carrying soap, sponge and nailbrush; the baby was washed simply by revolving the stands in opposite directions...
Portland to Pottsville. The fall of Paris gave another puff to the giant balloon of U.S. optimism. The cheering over Paris was the merest rehearsal for the most important date now on U.S. minds: the day Germany gives up. From Hollywood to Manhattan, U.S. communities were perfecting solemn, nervous or frivolous plans for V-day-and almost all city & state officials seemed to be going ahead on the assumption that the citizenry would get roaring drunk. Many citizens, suspecting that the officials might be right, were laying away extra quarts of blended spirits...
...lovers. I did the best I could in two hours." For a while her best was reasonably good: she seemed to make Lords of the Bedchamber of the whole Russian court and boudwarriors of half the Russian army. As she followed her hips about the stage in a solemn slink, as she languidly drew shameless innuendos from her husky throat, Actress West caught some of the aplomb, humor and matchless vulgarity of her "Come up and see me some time." But pretty soon her unvaried role began to pull and so, soon after, did her unvarying way of playing...
...Clothes, Loud Animals. My Unconsidered Judgment is an account of Author Busch's wartime investigations of some of the world's most foreign nations : Argentina, the Union of South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, England and Ireland. It does nothing to dissipate their foreignness. Of Argentina he reports: "Solemn in mien, Argentinians are addicted to dark clothes, funerals, and liver trouble. . . . Going about with downcast eyes, they are fussy about floors and pavements. These are elaborately made, in little slippery squares and patterns." Of South Africa: "Large animals, while more numerous than they should be, are not an influential...