Word: solemnizes
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...again, some latter-day toper could be heard to gulp and sob, with regret that was not unmixed with remorse. When the little girl cries, "Father, dear father, come home with me now," it took a hardened sophisticate indeed to chuckle at her innocence. However ridiculous was this solemn echo of an ancient and silly sermon in melodrama, it was impossible not to realize that plays even more foolish have been played this very season, in Manhattan, with an intensity not intended to be comic...
...mossy, domed Cathedral at Esztergom-on-Danube wound a solemn, resplendent procession of robed prelates and civil functionaries heavy with chains of office...
...began burning near Charlie Chaplin's effigy; the sad and funny little man subsided mournfully into smoking grease. The flames leaped from figure to figure, stroking their oily faces with a hot and magic hand. Before long, all the ugly famous criminals, the sly and silent actresses, the solemn, musty presidents and the fake policemen stationed to fool visitors-all these people with their stiff faces and their blind, secretive eyes, sharing also with their no less sly, no less secretive models the total inability to escape destruction, became puddles or streams of burning wax. Lindbergh looked brave...
Several circumstances in the city of Rome demanded the Pope's attention. One was the solemn benediction performed, near the Forum, by an abbot and a troupe of assorted monks, upon a bevy of parked automobiles. Holy water was sprinkled upon the radiators of the cars in honor of Santa Francesca Romana, a patroness of motorists. The other circumstances were connected with Vatican Bond Issue, sold in the U. S., to finance the building of the College for the Propaganda of the Faith, potent Catholic Missionary institution. The Pope had summoned George William Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago to Rome...
...orchard they have loved, is merely an illustration of what a great dramatist can do with the theme of miser, mortgage, and out you go. There is no reason why it should be intoned, as if the stage were the rostrum in the U. S. Senate, with foolish, solemn wheezings. Only Edward Rigby, as the old butler who lies down at the last to die, locked in the shuttered house his masters have deserted, gives a really satisfactory performance in a production which many discriminating playgoers might rightly feel themselves compelled to attend...