Word: solemnizes
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...going-away parties for the sons of prominent families, served the best of champagne. When an Oxnard boy was killed in action, Lucy would visit the bereaved family and bawl like a cow with a thistle in its throat. When President Roosevelt died, Oxnard newspapers carried a paragraph of solemn comment from Lucy as well as from churchmen and other civic leaders...
Rediscovered by Secretary Robert Patterson, who had been Stimson's Under Secretary, Royall was marked by Washington gossips for the top War Department job when solemn Bob Patterson retires. The man from North Carolina, who was once one of the state's best trial lawyers, was not excited. His ambition: "I'd kind of like to go back to my home town...
...Berlin's high-ceilinged Kammergericht last week the International Military Tribunal formally indicted 24 top Nazis as war criminals. For 50 solemn minutes the session proceeded in English, Russian, French and German. The presiding judge, Russian Major General I. T. Nikitchenko, quoted from the 25,000 word indictment: the U.S., France, Britain and Russia "hereby accuse [the defendants] as guilty . . . of crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity and of a common plan or conspiracy to commit these crimes...
...Master Braque's Interior, one of the hits of the Autumn Salon, was a solemn rectangle of silence in the general, uproar of the show. Painted almost entirely in black and grey, with a few dabs of orange, its solid, weighty strength made some of the gayer pictures look thin and forced. Braque has been living in unapproachable solitude for the past few years...
Although the solemn Tigers had stumbled and bumbled before applying the clincher, betters made them 13 to 10 favorites over their World Series rivals, the Chicago Cubs. Thanks to Pitcher Hank Borowy (and with the compliments of Yankee Boss Larry MacPhail, who decided in mid-season that he needed $100,000 more than he needed an outstanding pitcher like Borowy), the Cubs copped their pennant a day earlier-after giving Chicagoans almost as many palpitations as Detroiters had ruffered...