Word: solemnizes
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There were the Lion of Judah's lions to admire, fearfully. Once the house was full of fine new furniture from London, which she helped to arrange around the rooms. She could peep in solemn satisfaction at court ceremonies under the yellow umbrellas, and at banquets when her father's guests dined from gold plates. Her Shamma (Ethiopian drapery) was a lot more comfortable than European clothes. In private crises there was the haven of her mother's great brown bosom. And, when she was 14, her father winked at tradition and allowed her to head...
...poster has carried the punch of James Montgomery Flagg's recruiting poster of World War I depicting a persuasive Uncle Sam pointing a solemn finger at the U.S. and saying I WANT YOU FOR U.S. ARMY. Closer to it last week was a poster by veteran Saturday Evening Post Coverman Norman Rockwell. Created without benefit of a New Deal bureau, Artist Rockwell's machine gunner (see cut), whose wounds and exhausted cartridge belt cry aloud for assistance, was painted at the suggestion of Manhattan's Williams & Saylor Advertising Agency, for Army Ordnance. Like all good war posters...
...Yale Dally News pointed out in a solemn and straight-faced notice Monday, women's colleges are opening, and soon. Harvard men will not have their cake after September 19, but may still eat it if they can figure out transportation to Wellesley, Vassar, Smith, Connecticut, and grayer pastures...
Next day Big Jim Farley, his genial, pink face solemn with the importance of the moment, called the press in to bear witness to a prophecy not lightly made...
...only cure," concluded the News, "is solemn realization on the part of every citizen of the truth of the sentence, 'Detroit can either blow up Hitler or it can blow up the U.S.' Which it does can be determined only by Detroiters...