Word: solemnizes
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...satire, it is too often a mere family joke. More surprisingly, the sap in Playwright Axelrod's spoofing suddenly turns to syrup. Kidding the blonde siren at the start, Will Success offers a lowdown but lively Monroe Doctrine; championing the playwright at the end, it provides a weirdly solemn Declaration of Independence. (By this time, in Hollywood plays, integrity should be seen and not heard.) And in all the final putting things to rights, there is no trace of irony. If Hollywood filmed Faust, Faust might be expected to beat the rap. If he beats...
...mayor's Board of Planning and Operations sat in solemn session, waiting for the worst...
...editor of Zurich's solemn Swiss Review of World Affairs, returning from a trip to the U.S., assured his readers last week that the U.S. has just enjoyed "the happiest summer since 1928." Britain alone in Western Europe has a two-year draft; the rest have anywhere from twelve to 21 months...
...Nationalists denounced Moulay Arafa as a puppet and usurper. In the great mosque at Fez, the bearded priests of the Prophet issued a solemn edict: "In the name of Islam and the Moroccan people we demand the return of the legal sovereign, Ben Youssef." Istiqlal's moderate leaders, most of them French-educated businessmen with little stomach for violence, pleaded with their followers to avoid bloodshed, and petitioned the French for reforms...
...women all over Brazil observed a minute of solemn silence one day last week. It was the first anniversary of the dramatic morning on which President Getulio Vargas, confronted with a military demand for his resignation, put a pistol to his heart and committed suicide. With parades and mass meetings banned by the police, the day was quiet. The mourners who gathered around the flower-ringed bronze bust of Vargas in Rio's Florian Square seemed subdued and voiceless...