Word: solemnizes
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...prevails, and of the large evangelical denominations the one which least countenances clerical laxity is the Methodist Episcopal Church. Methodist asceticism reached its apogee in 1924 when a Methodist conference voted to insert in the Church's Book of Discipline the following: "We [ministers and laymen] . . . record our solemn judgment that the habitual use of tobacco is a practice out of harmony with the best Christian influence...
...enlightened opinion of the civilized world should rally to the support of this humane and constructive solution of a tragic problem, and should remind Great Britain of its solemn obligations...
...Great Meadow, has now reached such a pitch that readers cannot hope to come near her without taking off their workaday shoes and donning reverential slippers. Many a reader will consider life too short for such sartorial efforts; but for those who do not, Author Roberts has some solemn symbolism to show...
...Crown Prince frequently paid friendly visits to the young physician at the hospital to the great consternation of his solemn lifeguard of sometimes 3,500 magnificently armed men. He was born in 1909 according to Ethiopian calculation of time, but in 1915 according to our calendar. His name with titles looks like this: Mgorash Moered Atmatch Asfa Woosen. He is a very munificent monarch who talks many languages, a stately young man who lives in Dessye and governs that province, so to speak, to learn the art of ruling the entire country...
...last week there filed up the icy front steps of that house a procession of famed citizens. At 93 Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes lay desperately ill of pneumonia. To his solemn-faced physicians, nurses and friends, Mr. Justice Holmes growled: "It's a lot of damned foolery...