Word: solemnizes
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With a nod to right and another to left and a solemn wave of the hand to traffic, the blue-coated capsule of the law reigns supreme...
Scaremongers whispered: "It's a wave, sweeping the colleges. . . . A club . . . the members make solemn compact...
...last two conditions were not difficult to meet. They were matters of doctrine; a meeting, a solemn announcement, and the thing was done. But Dr. Fosdick's first condition was a matter of steel, concrete and cash. The Park Avenue Baptist Church took some time to work out its plans...
...curtain rose for the third act, Signor Lauri-Volpi, my stage lover, was disclosed supposedly asleep on the steps of my palace. Teddy advanced toward him across the stage. Box-holders jerked their opera glasses into position. Others opened wide their eyes. There was tittering, laughter and one great solemn guffaw. Teddy prowled on. Lauri-Volpi rose to sing. The audience roared. I, offstage, about to go on, had hard work to keep the severe demeanor of the cold Chinese princess. Signor Lauri-Volpi shooed. I called. Teddy came...
...plain that the ignornt keepers of the chapel and the ignorant natives of the neighborhood are guilty of constant, unconscious vandalism against these ancient works of art. After witnessing with a shudder the desecration of the images by greasy hands and modern mud-daubed restorations, he proceeds in the solemn vein:--"Thus it was that I was enabled to set about a labour of love and reverently to pry from its pedestal a figure halting upon one knee, with sensitive hands clasped in adoration before its bosom (now in the Fogg). No vandal hand but mine had disturbed...