Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...managers . . . [or] by the selfish obstruction of a small but dangerous minority of labor leaders who are a menace to the true cause of labor itself, as well as to the nation as a whole." Whether or not John Lewis would eventually give heed to his President's solemn, angry words, he had already done what few men of this generation or any other had ever done: flatly, bitterly, defiantly ignored three requests made by a President of the U.S. in the name of public necessity...
...Mayor was still offensive to all solemn and stuffy New Yorkers who value dignity more than good (though somewhat fantastic) government-and there are many such in the Republican Party. When LaGuardia took office in 1934, New York had unpaid bills of some $100,000,000, while its October 1941 bank balance was more than $218,000,000; the LaGuardia administration, while effecting enormous economies of management, had built 92 new school buildings, 14 health-center buildings, nine child-health stations, 25 hospital buildings, 325 playgrounds, 15 outdoor swimming pools, 845 wading pools, 252 tennis courts, 8,210 acres...
...minutes later, as the wax began to drip on the frosting, tall, solemn, saint-pale Cordell Hull entered. This was his 70th birthday, and the cake was for him. The newspapermen, beaming like apple-polishing schoolboys, made him a little speech. He thanked them and made a little speech in return: ''. . . It is in times like this that each of us needs desperately to hold fast to the faith that is in us, a faith in the destiny of free men and the supreme worth of Christian morality...
...epic speech, no solemn act of President Roosevelt made the week memorable in history books. But the lull was not a rest. In Hyde Park, where at week's end the President applied himself to the private task of settling his mother's estate, he could count a goodly number of chores which he had put behind...
...Pope's mind was on peace. This week he issued a solemn call to prayer for peace during October. Said Osservatore Romano, organ of the Vatican: "May this solemn supplication asked by the Pope serve to hasten the prophetic day when all humanity . . . will find again . . . true prosperity of both individuals and nations...