Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remember, a quarter of a century ago, that in the early days of the first World War the German Government received solemn assurances from their representatives . . . that the people of America were disunited; that they cared more for peace at any price than for the preservation of ideals and freedom; that there would even be riots and revolutions in the United States if this country ever asserted its own interests...
...inmate of one of the largest penitentiaries in the world, San Quentin. A horrible prison, through which one sees a stream of faces; solemn, accusing faces, and vacuous, prying faces that twitch and slobber in thrill-sated ecstasy at sight of one who still professes his patriotism...
Conservative Senator Josiah William Bailey of North Carolina, who has been 99% against the Administration except when campaigning for reelection, now recanted his onetime isolationism, ate his words with such solemn gusto that a hushed, impressed Senate clustered around his desk so as not to miss a syllable...
...candidates' faces were solemn and they sat without chatter. A great many things had happened to them in the last three months. When they got off the train at Quantico, their only common denominator had been that they were not more than 24 years old nor less than 20, graduates of approved colleges and universities, sound of wind and limb-and civilians. By last week they were no longer 233 civilians: they were the Corps's first candidates for the 1,200 new officers it needs...
Back Street (Universal), last done in 1932, is noted in the trade press as a "four-handkerchief" movie. Fannie Hurst's dreary, solemn story of a woman's lifelong devotion to her lover succeeds in proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the lot of an unmarried wife is hard and lonely...