Word: solemnizes
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Into the White House one day last week marched eleven solemn-faced churchmen. It was hot. Few of them wore waistcoats. Newsgatherers in the lobby were about to mistake them for businessmen on an economic mission when they recognized Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, leading the procession back into the president's office. Also recognized were Rev. David G. Wylie, Lord's Day Alliance president, and Rev. Harry Laity Bowlby, its secretary. Ranged around President Hoover, they made six small speeches each asking the President's support for a Sunday closing...
...sailor has taken an oath to sustain the laws of the land. We already have a standing army ready and able to enforce all laws in every foot of the land and a man at the helm-Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy-who has taken a solemn oath to protect, defend and enforce the federal Constitution and the laws of Congress enacted thereunder...
Gravrilo Princip and Nadelko Cabrinovite were the students who killed the Archduke & his Duchess. Their bodies, with those of 26 of their fellow conspirators, lie in a great stone vault, unmarked out of regard for Austrian feeling. Here solemn hero services were held last week...
...last week to Copenhagen. The third, tall King Christian of Denmark, was there in person. From such far countries as India, the U. S. and Japan came delegates. Archbishops were there and Presidents of Councils and many a layman, as the cause and future of Lutheranism were bared to solemn discourse at that great sect's second world conference...
Last week these two cities had solemn occasion to remember Mother Mary Magdalene. For now has begun the secret "trial" to determine whether she was worthy to be made a saint. After the proceedings and findings of that trial have been reported to the Vatican, the Pope may announce her beatification, then her canonization...