Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held.* The three ministers conferred through interpreters, called in the various experts of the staffs as they needed them. To the first full-length session Hull and Eden took their military advisers, respectively Major General John R. Deane and Lieut. General Sir Hastings Ismay, thereby leading correspondents to the solemn, if obvious, conclusion that matters of military consequence stood high on the agenda. After some delay the Russians disclosed that Molotov was being advised by no lesser personages than Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov and onetime Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the U.S. Maxim Litvinoff...
...Robeson last week was a less moving figure than he was at Cambridge, he had tempered the violence that marred his scenes of crazed jealousy, he had better caught the hang of his lordly speeches, the meaning of his crucial scenes. Magnificent in stature, magnificent if a little too solemn in manner, magnificent if a little monotonous of voice, Robeson did not bring to the part poetry and drama so much as sculpture and organ music. He was not so much Othello as a great and terrible presence...
...Japan? China's faith in democracy was not for herself alone but for all Asia, including her mortal foe. On this same, solemn day, Sun Fo, son of the "sainted Sun Yatsen, now President of the Legislative Yuan, called for a republic in postwar Japan...
Georges Seurat reacted from such peculiarities by being the most conservative of sons. He went to the reactionary Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he drew and painted in such traditional manners as those of Poussin, Ingres, etc. To the end of his short life, solemn, bearded Georges lived with utter circumspection, detested eccentricity of dress (the black suit and top hat best suited him) and was variously described by friends as resembling the St. George of Donatello, a young business executive, and a notary with the profile of an Assyrian king...
Last week a six-foot former coal miner whom Dr. Joseph Hakes, Baptist pastor of Huntington, W. Va., calls "a man sent from God," kept a solemn pledge. He was ordained a Baptist minister. His name: Park Tucker. His parish : Tabernacle Baptist Church, Chillicothe, Ohio...