Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Letters-to-the-editor are generally either bad-tempered, ax-grinding or solemn-crotchety. A refreshingly unclassifiable exception to this rule was recently printed in the London Daily Mail. Said the Letter Writer "John Adam...
Today! Tomorrow! Yesterday! A Swiss newspaper said that the foreign press corps in Germany was betting the invasion would fall between May 6 and June 7. Other guessers picked the date with solemn certainty: May 10, fourth anniversary of the German invasion of the Low Countries. The Madrid newspaper Arriba, having conned tide tables, set the time of invasion as either 4:41 a.m. Saturday or 4:39 a.m. Sunday. Saturday and Sunday came and went. The Helsinki Sanomat announced it had "learned" that invasion was under way, with landings in several places. Neither the Germans nor the Allies seemed...
...older Holmes grew, the younger he acted. He liked to challenge the earnest young Liberals-Francis Hackett, Walter Lippmann, Herbert Croly, Felix Frankfurter-who flocked around him: "What is it? Tell me, I'll take the opposite side." "These young men," he complained, "are so damned solemn." He was painted by Artist Charles Hopkinson in the full glory of his judicial robes. "That isn't me," said Holmes, "but it's a damn good thing for people to think it is." When Justice McReynolds snapped a question at a green young lawyer, Holmes woke with a start...
Frossia is the story of a girl who remained. A Russian chronicle of 358 pages, it is a documentary novel as solid and as solemn as a collection of social workers' case histories, formless, agonized, repetitious, linked only by the personality of Frossia, who in turn is kept going by her faith in a Russia that survives revolutions, the Tcheka, the Comintern, and remains the same...
...Marine platoon presented arms, the bugler played "To the Colors" as the U.S. flag fluttered up the staff. From under the rustling coconut palms a solemn group of natives watched the formal institution of U.S. military rule. This was the first segment of the Japanese Empire to be captured by the U.S.-one of the outer atolls of the Marshall Islands...