Word: solemnizes
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Frenchmen were listening in, listening hard. To them the speech was far more important than to Americans. Italy is their potential enemy and vice versa. Next day the entire Paris press betrayed profound relief at the quiet tone of Il Ditce's speech, the solemn, personal nature of his long keynote...
...Oslo last week King Haakon and Queen Maud had among their Jubilee guests his elder brother, King Christian X of Denmark; and Prince George, youngest son of her brother King-Emperor George V. Beginning with a simple, solemn Lutheran service in Our Saviour's Church, the Jubilee became joyous as Their Majesties left the church amid a rousing 21-gun salute, clattered off to the Palace where King Haakon addressed his people and all Scandinavia by radio...
Into the study of Thomas Alva Edison at Llewellyn Park, N. J. last week walked Lieut. Richard T. Aldworth, U. S. A. retired, tall, solemn, redheaded director of Newark Airport. Three hours later he departed with fingers cramped from scribbling 25 pages of answers to the deaf inventor's questions; also with the knowledge that Inventor Edison proposes to attack the problem of flying in dirty weather. As preface to the interview Inventor Edison, who had summoned Lieut. Aldworth, piloted him across the room, read aloud to him the words on a brass plaque hanging on the wall: "There...
Under the heading "A Solemn Responsibility," leading editorial in last week's Christian Century, Editor Charles Clayton Morrison made that statement which, he said "has been a fact for a long time but has not been recognized until now." Occasion for Editor Morrison's awakening was the announcement of the change of Christian Herald from weekly to monthly schedule beginning next February.* "It is not too much to say that the success or failure of Prohibition may rest with The Christian Century," he added...
...grim, Author Munthe has whimsied them into wistfulness which never quite loses an old-fashioned charm. His humor is of the same mellow vintage. On a vacation at Ischia he struck up a friendship with a donkey. "Each morning came my neighbor, the old donkey, and stuck in her solemn head through the open door, looking steadfastly at me. I always wondered why she stood there so still and did nothing but stare at me, and I could not hit upon any other explanation than that she thought I was nice to look...