Word: solemnizes
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...newspapers ran the slug on their front pages; it was almost as important an announcement as if a prizefighter, for publicity purposes, had refused a championship title. Not quite so important; the prizefighter would have got an extra, but the man whose solemn, blunt features appeared under the slug had certainly derived as much attention as he could expect from a purely intellectual issue. It was, of course, Sinclair Lewis; he had refused the Pulitzer Prize of $1,000 awarded to him for Arrowsmith...
...orderly thing to do, so long as we profess to live under a constitutional government, to amend the Constitution in the manner provided by the Constitution itself? Can the Senator conceive of anything more demoralizing and undermining to the good citizenship of the people than to have a solemn pledge in the Constitution and to have great Senators stand upon the floor of the Senate and say the people are going to have what they want regardless of whether it is constitutional...
...years the undergraduate has provided the pedagogic mind with a sort of psychological guinea pig. Anything and everything has been tried on the students of the various colleges, from hypnotism to straw votes on the solemn issues of the League of Nations, the prohibition law and the Presidential elections...
...importance can come to be presented in a more keen and pleasing manner, the art will have been greatly refined. Many steps forward have been taken within the last few years by recognizing the important role of wit in debating. Therein lies the true worth of this less solemn tendency. Dwight W. Chapman, President, Harvard Debating Council...
...watches in their pockets. They knew what would happen now. So did I. Leaving my banana soda I went to look at the performance. It was always the same. One after another of the men quit his station by the steps to follow Cartrack. So a long file of solemn marchers were soon in her wake. Main Street in Charmington became for a few minutes a primrose path to an everlasting bonfire, and the bon fire was the rage of Cartrack, damned by religion, damned...