Word: solemnizes
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Once, fiercely booed for 15 minutes, Mr. MacDonald left a Seaham platform without speaking while hundreds chorused, "You're a liar!" But more often Mac-Donald "platform magic" worked. The dignified, silver-haired Prime Minister won votes and wrung hearts by solemn sob-stuff. He dragged in his long dead wife: "In the old days, the first days, my wife and I had to pay for the postage of the Labor Party! We bought out of our own pockets-my wife and I-the very notepaper on which Labor's work was done. . . . Labor is in my blood...
Britons with their pound off gold and on a paper basis, thrilled by the million at Philip Snowden's solemn assurance that sterling still has an intrinsic value...
...conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means." The actions of the Japanese military officers, however, are in such flat contradiction with the terms of the Pact that they virtually put aside the solemn renunciation of war to facilitate their imperialistic aggrandizement...
...18th hole. But he made the mistake of playing the course instead of the weather. Ouimet faded and hooked his shots to keep them in the fairways. On the 23rd, Ouimet sank a 20-foot putt which put him 7 up. They played eight holes more, Ouimet solemn and quiet, Westland peering and stooping over his putts in an eccentric, futile drill. Ouimet was still 6 up at the 31st tee and when they halved that hole the match was over...
...church in Benton, 111., gathered the many friends of Stephen R. Patton. So. for his funeral. A quartet sang several hymns. The minister arose and preached the funeral sermon in a solemn, emotional voice, told how Stephen R. Patton had spent many wicked years before he became a Christian. In the mourners bench, behind piles of funeral wreaths, sat Stephen R. Patton himself. Tears gleamed in his eyes. Said he: ''It takes something like this to show a man how many friends he has." The friends had planned to give him a birthday party; he had begged for a funeral...