Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...free to express his own convictions. No religious editor has ever set out upon his task with the assurance of greater freedom. . . . Inasmuch as Methodism now has but one 'official' paper, it must be broad enough to make room for diversity, and we herewith enter into a solemn covenant with the Church that this will...
...Mormons were neither solemn nor eccentric: they were thoroughly normal, low-born Americans and immigrants whose appetite for living was sharpened by faith, work, poverty, disaster and gaiety. Their faith was immense. Their work was strenuous and disinterested. Even the more provident of them were poor. But they endured with courage the disasters of the frontier and the depredations of their fellow...
Earlier Roosevelt Christmas celebrations in the White House were unlike the solemn Christmas of 1940. In the Roosevelt family, Christmas means the gathering of the clan, a hearty outpouring of Roosevelt high spirits, a time for children, grandchildren, toys, recollections, big family dinners, and loud family festivities at the unwrapping of the presents. So it was 51 years ago, when Franklin, aged 7, printed his card to his mother with all the Ns right side up, the Ss turned the right way around, and asking for "some little boats." So it was through the Christmas seasons during...
...This is the highest and most solemn moment of our war," Italy's chief labor newspaper, Lavoro Fascista, said last week. "The time has come to say to our open and hidden enemies that we have never been prouder of being Italians and Fascisti. . . . That goes also for those Italians who are falser than Greek money and, doubly bastardized, who have not the heart to hold out to victory and who are not worthy of it. With them, fortunately, the accounting is near...
...watched, Judge Yule weeded out the entries to the four finalists: two from Purdue University, "Loyal Alumnus III" and "College Maid"; the University of Alberta's "Robin Hood" and 18-year-old Evelyn Asay's fat little "Sargo." Judge Yule paced from one to another in solemn worriment, arms hang ing, fingers outstretched like a house guest looking for a towel. Finally he waved the Purdue entries aside. Josh Biglands, sawedoff, red-faced herdsman of the University of Alberta, shortened his grip on "Robin Hood's" tether and nudged the Shorthorn steer's feet so that...