Word: solemnizes
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Everybody was swapping congratulations. Somebody dropped a dead mouse down somebody's back. Said solemn Joe DiMaggio, veteran of seven World Series: "These celebrations are all alike-but I can stand them." Outside of Joe DiMaggio, the quietest fellow in all the champagne-splashing was the man who did most to win the pennant-Manager Stanley Raymond ("Bucky") Harris...
...much different from the impression given. In a discussion whose single dominant character is that no one knows very much about the book under consideration, the absence of an informed person usually means that . . . intellectual humility is also absent. What usually happens is that people say, in a very solemn voice, things they would not dream of saying anywhere else...
Behind this Sunday-best façade (which cost an estimated 700 million rubles-$58 million) was everyday Moscow, a slow city, solemn friendly (when its masters permit it) and relatively clean-especially near the center. Dirt increases in direct proportion to distance from the Kremlin. Not even last week's ceremonial ablutions could douse Moscow's habitual smell-a musty and ageless compound of wet plaster, cabbage and inadequately dressed furs. Not even last week's hectic carnival rumpus could exaggerate the Muscovites' devotion to their white-walled, golden-headed city...
Present to hear this challenge to Christian Democratic Premier De Gasperi was Luigi Longo, Italian Communism's unofficial minister of war. As 32 of his well-organized partisan brigades paraded, he remarked tersely that this was "a solemn warning to those who need...
...because everyone concerned with it is obviously trying very hard to do something good, powerful and out of the ordinary. Occasionally, this effort brings the picture to life. There are also a few good flashes of melodrama. But on the whole, Deep Valley is reminiscent of many of the solemn little-theater plays of the early '20s: i.e., it is lost in mawkishness and pseudopoetic feeling masquerading...