Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still arguing as the clock struck 12, outgoing Holt and quick-change artist Neely made their separate, solemn appointments for the Senate seat that was not vacant until the instant Neely vacated it. Long and wearily Senate legal pundits debated who should get the decision. Four months passed...
...really sonorous send-off ASCAP had to wait till Sunday night. Then, on an hour-and-a-half, coast-to-coast program called "ASCAP Salutes Mutual," the composers broadcast a solemn Te Deum celebrating their first settlement with the chains...
Because spirituals "were written for solemn occasions and not for the edification of jitterbugs," the Pennsylvania Legislature last fortnight condemned the swinging of spirituals, requested radio stations not to broadcast religious music except on Sundays and holidays...
...help in an attack on Gibraltar, perhaps on Portugal as well. Japan was making bold gestures toward Singapore, where British reinforcements were rushed (see p. 30). Against all these threats Winston Churchill could only balance the remote chance of acquiring Russia as an ally. Once more he uttered a solemn warning to Joseph Stalin: "The Germans may lay their hands . . . upon the granaries of the Ukraine and the oil wells of the Caucasus...
Expressing his appreciation that so many came to hear him, "Copey" said he believed it was far better to hear the Bible read aloud than to hear it in church with the accompanying drama and deep emotion. The Bible is part of a solemn ritual, according to Copey and should not be read with dramatic enthusiasm...