Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listeners, monitoring Japanese home broadcasts, found the speeches and newspaper quotations following two main lines: 1) to brace Jap hope, stories of U.S. weakness and disunity; 2 ) to spur the Jap war effort, solemn warnings that vast physical resources make the U.S. an enemy to be feared...
Cigar, Lady? With all his clowning, Breneman knows that it sometimes pays to be solemn. He is careful to treat old women with respect. He air-expresses an orchid to "the good neighbor of the day"-chosen from nominating letters sent in by listeners. Sometimes he presents an orchid to a member of the audience. Often she is a Midwestern farm woman who has never seen one before, and she frequently accepts it with tears in her eyes. Breneman will offer a grandmother a cigar if he thinks he can get away with it. He constantly asks his audience...
When Chief Justice Sir Oscar Daly finished his summation and the jury retired, Freddy had his chauffeur park his car beside the courthouse. But he managed to look solemn when the twelve brought in their verdict, vastly relieved when the words "not guilty" unlocked the mahogany cage for the last time. In a sea of shrieks and yells and jumping natives, Freddy kissed his wife, Sir Harry's 19-year-old daughter Nancy, and his friend, the Marquis de Visdelou-Guimbeau, whose coat of arms is three wolves with their tongues hanging out. Then he dove into...
Every morning for 25 years (1870-95) a solemn, bearded man in frock coat, droopy trousers and elastic-sided boots opened Queen Victoria's mail. General Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby was the Widow of Windsor's Private Secretary. Over the years, in daily letters to his wife and in countless jottings, Ponsonby charted the awesome complexities of his job. Out of this mass of papers his son, Arthur (Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede), a onetime page at the Queen's court (see cut), has contrived a book which is both a biography of his father and a candid...
Died. Max Reinhardt, 70, famed theatrical producer (The Miracle); of paralysis and pneumonia, after a stroke; in Manhattan. Born near Vienna, the solemn prodigy with the wire-grey pompadour clicked in his first stage role (1893), soon became Berlin's outstanding director. Once praised for the intimate drama, at his Salzburg Festivals (begun in 1920) he out-dreamed a Barnum with his decor, employed huge casts and invited huge guest lists to his Castle Leopoldskron. Celebrated in the U.S. for The Miracle (1924), Jewish Max Reinhardt was reduced to Paris poverty in the early days of Nazidom, made...