Word: solemnizing
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...York's Judge Samuel Seabury seemed almost an anachronism in the gay, irreverent 1920s. The son, grandson and great-grandson of clergymen, he saw part of life through the stained-glass windows of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He saw another part with the solemn, pince-nezed gaze of a reform-minded lawyer and jurist. The worst of what he saw was symbolized by James John Walker, New York City's twice-elected (1925, 1929) mayor. Jimmy Walker, top hat perched jauntily askew, wisecracked his way through the '20s like a handsome Bacchus, and it was perhaps inevitable...
From London last week came a solemn ruling: a sandwich is what Pan American World Airways thinks it is, and not what most other transatlantic carriers would like it to be. The decision was on Pan American's complaints that its competitors evaded an International Air Transport Association ruling against full meals on transatlantic economy flights by serving sandwiches that were actually sumptuous meals (TIME, April...
...really night, for already dawn perched silver-sandaled on the punch bowl. Mr. Phillips nodded in that sad, solemn way to Mr. Brooks. And the paste-faced fellow toppled from the coffee table, at rumpled, indignant peace with...
...Walter progressed rapidly from wills and deeds to more complicated jobs-the resuscitation of hard-hit bond and mortgage companies. Soon he was senior partner in a firm of 20 lawyers, and he took on the habit of chain-smoking his cigars. He learned to take two solemn puffs before he ever answered a question, particularly questions he was tempted to answer...
...Wild Men." In a solemn ceremony "in the royal palace at Rabat, the proud Emir of Trarza symbolically placed his title "at the Sultan's feet." "Our ancestors," said the Mauritanians, "recognized the authority of the Great Sultan Moulay Ismail during the reign of the French King Louis XIV." Replied King Mohammed: "We are the sons of the same country, our beloved Morocco...