Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Cross. The citation: for gallant endurance. Chief Justice Borg accepted the medal and deposited it under a plinth in the main square opposite an old palace of the Grand Masters of the Knights of St. John. Over the plinth the King's Own Malta Regiment took up solemn sentry duty. Stoically the Maltese burrowed into their ancient island. Grimly, for the power and the glory and for Christendom, the island of the Knights fought...
...ordeal of Robert Sherwood began last week. The tall, thin, solemn playwright (Reunion in Vienna, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, etc.) made his first request to Congress for money ($26,000,000) to carry on the foreign propaganda work of his Overseas Branch of the Office of War Information. Members of the House appropriations subcommittee wanted to know what had been accomplished with the money (from the President's emergency fund) he had spent...
Proof Wanted. If solemn, considered questioning of British and U.S. policy was lacking in Parliament, it was not lacking in Russia. Prime Minister Churchill admitted as much in his speech. Said he: "The Russians did not think that we or America had done enough to take the weight off them. . . . It was difficult to make the Russians comprehend the difficulties of ocean transport. . . . It was difficult to explain fully the different characteristics of the war effort of the various countries...
...famed for his solemn, racially conscious murals as for his teaching, Woodruff has decorated the walls of several Atlanta schools. His best-known work is a large (6½ by 80 ft.) double set of murals in the newly completed Savery Library at Talladega (Ala.) College. Painted in broad, Rivera-like brush strokes and crowded with writhing figures of whites and Negroes, these murals record two historical subjects associated with the story of the U.S. Negro: 1) the history of the 1839 mutiny on the slave ship Amistad, the subsequent trial of the Negro mutineers in New Haven, Conn...
...president, "you had better make him a chimney sweep." Then he looked at John's drawings. "Madam," said the president, "it is your duty to bring the boy up to art." At twelve, John Everett won the Royal Academy's gold medal. As he tripped before the solemn Academicians, "long, light curls fell over his goffered collar, his face was fresh-colored and open, his eyes a candid blue." "The Child" had become "the darling of the institution...