Word: solemnizes
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...cast our vote for the Harvard indifference: let the solemn asses parade in their swank derbies and their gorgeous pants, let them smoke cigarettes in long holders and look with drooping bored eyes upon the swarming life of the world: but do not, we pray to heaven, bless Harvard's going collegiate...
...announced that on March 19, festival of St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church, he would celebrate a solemn mass of expiation, propitiation, reparation, for Russia's sacrilege, would make special appeal to Russia's ancient protectors, St. Basil, St. Nicholas, St. Cyrillus, St. Therese. He asked all Christians to join him, offered confident assurance: "Divine providence on the moment designated by it will prepare to give the necessary means to repair the moral and material ruins of those immense regions, which constitute a sixth part of the whole universe...
...every entrance to the vast concrete horseshoe of Mexico's National Stadium stood two soldiers last week, solemnly slapping the hips of everyone who entered, searching for pistols. In a parking space nearby a sergeant of artillery elegantly picked his teeth while black-eyed Indian children gazed, owl solemn, at the battery of cannon under his charge. Inside the stadium 50,000 people bought hot frijoles (baked beans roasted in corn husks) and cold beer from shrill peddlers, gazed impatiently at the platform garlanded with red and white carnations, green palm leaves, where sat the entire Mexican Congress, frock...
...Manhattan office of the U. S. Appraiser of Customs, last week, seven solemn gentlemen sat down for a series of unmannerly, inquisitive tea parties. Ignoring social usage, they did not gather at tea time but in the morning when their senses were acute. Ignoring polite tradition, they sniffed each cup vigorously, filled their mouths full, then spewed into large brass cuspidors. No hostess was present to pour tea from the hundred assembled samples, nor was there any host except the U. S. Government. The nearest to such a functionary was, however, John Joseph McNamara, Chairman of the Board...
...wanted them. Last week there was a great parade by torchlight from the campus to Occum Pond. The college band was playing, and visitors rode in sleigh barges each pulled by four horses. The students gave a play, Fill the Bowl Up, on Occum Pond and a committee of solemn judges selected Jeannette Ross of Maplewood, N. J., and Miss Wheelock's School in Boston as Dartmouth Carnival Queen and the prettiest girl there?a title that was another feather in the cap of smart junior and Phi Gamma Pitkin, who had asked her up. There was some roughhousing...