Word: solemnizes
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...will drawn nine years before his marriage has been challenged by Colonel Green's widow, redheaded Mabel E. Harlow Green, 66. Dressed completely in black as was the habit of her mother, Hetty Green, the "Witch of Wall Street." rich old Mrs. Wilks sparred verbally with solemn-faced Lawyer Isaac A. Pennypacker, who questioned her on behalf of Widow Green. Ignoring the scales of justice separated by a sword of "Truth" encrusted on the ceiling, alert old Mrs. Wilks said just what she wanted to in her testimony-and when she wanted...
...Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, looking very solemn and very fit in spite of having celebrated his 75th birthday the day before, cast hardly a glance at his jam-packed courtroom as he took his seat. With a rustling of robes his Associates joined him. The Chief Justice, turning his head, gave a brief nod toward the right extremity of the bench. Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts, end man of the Court, took up a manuscript and began to read...
...slumbering corpse: how shall a second-rate writer support a wife, two children and his own self-respect during an economic depression? Though Evelyn Scott lists herself with the great minority of Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Dostoievsky, Tolstoy, few readers will count her their equal. While they may give her solemn approbation for her attempt "to convey something of the nightmare negation of the human by the machine," they will close her book without much fellow feeling for her unfortunate examples...
...Nine years later, with a law school added, the institution became the University of Louisville, first municipally founded and supported university in the U. S. This week at the end of another March, President Raymond Asa Kent officially launched the three months' round of visits, banquets, speeches and solemn academic exercises that will make up the University of Louisville's Centennial...
...prison, she returned to her cell, told a jail matron: "I can sit in this chair, or lie down on this bed and kill myself by strength of will power." So saying, she selected the bed, went into a fit of sulks so profound that half a dozen solemn psychiatrists could not even agree on a name for it, variously calling it "hysterical fugue," "split personality," "dementia praecox," "triumph of the subconscious," "self-imposed hypnosis," "voluntary stupor...