Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst feature of the wowser is that he is not content to spend his Sundays drably in sedate strolls or in solemn indoor sportlessness. He wants everyone else to be Sunday-drab, too. And for soldiers who are working like horses six days a week to save the wowser and his friends from the Jap, that is something to howl about...
Stiffly formal and preponderantly religious, they showed demure madonnas suckling solemn-faced infants, martyrs suffering horrible tortures with quiet dignity, earnest, humorless burghers and princes and their doll-faced wives. Single exception to the prevailing solemnity was a grimly humorous allegory by Painter Hieronymus Bosch (see cut), showing with peasant grotesqueness and a premonition of surrealism the hag-ridden death of an irresolute miser...
Said Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University: "I call it the 20th-century World War." Said onetime Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey: "That's a tough one. Let me think a minute. How about Fight to Live?" Letters poured into the White House carrying monosyllabic, polysyllabic, clever, solemn, simple, erudite, zippy and non-zippy words...
...necessities of nature unless he could give a reason for it' "); Charles James Fox ("the most delightful Englishman of his time"); William Pitt (". . . passing from Fox to Pitt . . . is like leaving a lighted house where there was companionship and dancing and supper, to walk home alone through streets solemn with midnight"); Pope ("Is it 'poetry'?"); Swift ("Swift's living brain was akin to other men's in dreams"); Defoe ("Defoe was less of an artist-by circumstances, temperament, or aspiration-than almost any other great writer in the range of English letters"); Dr. Johnson...
...experts wag the solemn chin...