Word: solemnizes
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...solemn festival draws to its close. For a few minutes we linger still to interchange our mutual sentiments and feelings, and then to part until the 300th anniversary summons the sons of Harvard to unite on a similar occasion. A few may expect to see that distant day, but most of us know that for us it is impossible. But whether we join in it or not, those who shall commemorate are to be our brethren, united by that bond of fraternity whose mystic cords draw together all who have drunk at this fountain. Their voices as our own, when...
Thus was climaxed the solemn jubilee of Louis Lumière whose name means light and who has never claimed that he and his brother Auguste invented the cinema...
...England Congregational ministers entered solemn protest against accepting for foreign missions $100,000 of tainted "Trust" money from John D. Rockefeller. Throughout the U. S. husbands were joking about the super-hatpins which their wives were using to hold on monstrous sailor hats. Among best-selling books of the year were George Barr McCutcheon's Beverly of Graustark and Thomas Dixon's The Clansman. In Manhattan, George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession was closed by police, while audiences wept nightly at dainty Maude Adams in The Little Minister. Also in Manhattan, a crusading young...
...tribunal in the land." He was described as a kind-eyed, elderly country doctor. His statement was "anonymous." But whatever the facts behind the Mail's fat story, it could hardly have aroused more controversy had it been printed as a signed and sworn affidavit in the solemn Times. Medical bigwigs on two continents last week spoke their minds as to the rightness or wrongness of murder for mercy. Pungent, voluble Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association's Journal, observed that the average doctor frequently faces the problem, that when it is a matter between...
...fifth consecutive week Africa's dreary little war supplied British politicians with material for solemn ruminations. If the British and their Navy meant business-if any real chance existed that His Majesty's Government would use their sea power to blockade and starve Italy as they once blockaded and starved Germany-then indeed everything else was secondary. Inside the massive head of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin the great issue continued slowly and comfortably to shape itself...