Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Point. Historians may well marvel at the tasks thrust on the 77th Congress; in no other country were the overwhelming chores of global war thrown on such a heterogeneous group of men & women. Some future Reveille in Washington will record the solemn manner in which Franklin Roosevelt asked for a declaration of war, the triumphant grin on Poll-Taxer Theodore Bilbo's face, the specter of Prohibition unearthed by Josh Lee, the invective poured out by Montana's Burton Wheeler, the ringing periods of Visitor Winston Churchill's oration in the House Chamber, the turbulent, sweaty, exhausting...
...Franklin Roosevelt last week came many a quiet reminder of the human tragedies, joys and kindnesses that go on in peacetime and in war. On one sober, solemn day he presented Congressional Medals of Honor to the families of two of his old friends who had died heroes' deaths in the Solomons (see p. 86). And twice more in the week the busy routine of White House news was stopped for the business of humanity...
Reading these somewhat solemn maxims out of context suggests one reason why later and lesser minds have sometimes been misled into supposing that a good deal of Washington's genius consisted of a somewhat Olympian manner...
...Join the Army or Navy and get a college education." Such was the gist of a solemn announcement by the American Council on Education last week. The A.C.E. and the armed forces had cooked up a scheme whereby U.S. colleges will give soldiers and sailors credits toward college degrees, for education they get in service...
...Voyager (Warner) is the Warner Bros.' solemn contribution to the study of the mother complex. Sympathetically directed by Irving Rapper, sensibly acted by Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and a massive supporting cast, the picture often succeeds (in the course of two hours) in looking like the moving and intelligent drama it thinks...