Word: solemnizes
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Like the brief exciting taps with which a conductor, baton against score-stand, commands attention for solemn music, certain items rat-tatted in the press last week as follows...
...traffic of Broadway, Maxine Mongendre, Consul General of France, pinned a bit of ribbon on the breast of Marcus Loew, showman. Mr. Loew, of "Loew, Inc.," became a showman twenty years ago in much the same fashion that he has now become a legionaire-by accident. Even during the solemn ceremony that involved the bit of ribbon he could not appear to be taking himself seriously. A short, genial little man, with a big mouth and eyes that seem always to be listening, he had the air of an elegant Hebrew comedian about to do a vaudeville turn...
...have ever written to an editor. But inasmuch as I do not want to appear to say things behind your back that I would not say to your face and inasmuch as you have demanded it (TIME, July 12, LETTERS), I herewith make your life complete and break my solemn vow. First, anent footnotes, if you think they belong in the magazine, run 'em. ... If TIME succeeds as you want to run it, you prove that you are right: if it flops, then you are wrong and no breathless tagging in the wandering aimless footsteps of the public...
...winding roads that run through the smiling hills near Dover, N. J., were populated with sadness; no laughter broke through the stillness; even the pudgy children, bronzed as rust, trotted, wondrously solemn, beside their stolid Slavic folk. Short-statured women, sunburned, stocky men, trudged ploddingly, bewilderedly, home. Whispers. Tears. Vague muddle...
Five years ago, one solemn morning, many a statesman, many 'a senator, many a silk-hatted diplomat wound slowly through Washington's broad streets, crossed the green slopes beyond to Arlington, stood uncovered before the casket of the Unknown Soldier. John Wingate Weeks defied physicians' instructions, stood bareheaded that awesome morning, shortly afterwards became ill. Last week he died...