Word: solemnizes
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...historic step of proposing to relax the stern mandates of the Volstead Act. To trie Flouse from its Ways & Means Committee was reported a bill (H. R. 13,312) legalizing 3.2% beer?a product about as strong as that sold currently in good speakeasies. After long hearings and solemn consideration the committee had concluded that no one could get drunk on such a beverage, that therefore it was a non-intoxicant under the 18th Amendment. Ostensibly H. R. 13,312 was put forward as a new tax bill to raise additional budget-balancing revenue. Its real purpose, however...
Next the Royal regalia was brought to the robing room of the House of Lords. Shortly before noon the King & Queen drove over from Buckingham Palace, were assisted into their gear and began their solemn, stately walk to the two gold thrones in the House of Lords. Once a year His Majesty opens Parliament for the excellent reason that he has closed it, and this salutary closing (a formality performed by the Lord Chancellor) kills hundreds of bills which have not yet passed both Houses, thus clearing the Parliamentary decks for action...
...autumn the Washington Riding & Hunt Club got as blesser Very Rev. George Carl Fitch Bratenahl, the tall, bespectacled, scholarly Episcopal dean who spends most of his time overseeing the building of Washington Cathedral (TIME, May 9). Dean Bratenahl put on full vestments, was photographed giving the Church's solemn benediction to the yapping, scrambling hounds. Prayed he: "Brethren, we are gathered here to ask the blessing of our Heavenly Father upon the Riding & Hunt Club and upon all living creatures belonging thereto. . . . Grant, we beseech Thee. O Almighty God, to these creatures of Thy bounty the shelter...
...making mockery of a solemn thing? A Cleveland churchman soon arose so to accuse him. In a Sunday sermon Rev. Howard Harper of Grace Episcopal Church, South, pointed out that the Anglican clergy first took up blessing the hounds because foxes were a menace to the countryside. "The fox is not a pest any longer," said Mr. Harper. "If a fox should cause a modern farmer trouble, the farmer would not assemble his friends and his neighbors, equip them with horns and red coats and ask them to ride to hounds in quest of the offending animal...
...hounds need no blessing. . . . These people are only playing. And the priest, too, is only playing. But he is playing with a solemn thing, his priestly power. His blessing becomes a mockery...