Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suffering "severe measures," walked boldly into the ancient Greek Orthodox Church of Ilie Gorgani in Bucharest, through the floodlit, green-draped entrance, past the urns of burning incense on the stone stairway. Before the altar, where 26 uniformed Iron Guard youths stood at attention, they knelt, joined the solemn prayers of the priests over the candlelit caskets of Codreanu and his "martyred" followers...
Died. Paul Fratellini, one of the world's greatest clowns, the solemn member of the Three Fratellinis of the Cirques d'Hiver, Medrano and other arenas; in Paris. Wrote France's Minister of the Interior when the Three Fratellinis were awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor: "I congratulate you heartily in the name of all the little children of Paris, whose joy you are, and also in the name of their lathers, those other big children, whom we call...
...handsome Mary. Their two-year-old daughter Johanna, who had the sniffles at one performance, was the infant Jesus. No applause was permitted during the play, while Meier was realistically crucified with trick nails, while he was resurrected in white satin. Nor was there any applause for a solemn moment after the final curtain. Then it was loud and long, while many people swarmed backstage to stare at Meier. This solid urban success of the Black Hills Players made it appear that in Spearfish, S. D., the U. S. may have acquired its own Oberammergau...
Irvine's relief column!" Solemn-faced Producer DeMille, who works himself into the proper mood by donning such lavish haberdashery as forest-green gabardine riding costumes, bows to no stickler for technical accuracy. A thousand volumes were probed in research for North West Mounted Police. A "mounty" was imported to drill a squadron of extras. A forest of 400 pine trees, requiring a State fire warden, converted six acres of the Paramount lot into rugged backwoods. This earnest devotion to accuracy left little time for comedy, suspense and other standbys of good swashbuckling melodrama...
Last fortnight another friend, Novelist Virginia Woolf (Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse, Orlando), laid out Critic Fry for all to see in a stately biography, Roger Fry (Harcourt, Brace; $3.50), as solemn as a satin-lined coffin...