Word: solemnizes
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...from prominent member of the famed St. Paul's choristers got hold of the idea and made a rhyme about it which he passed around at choir practice behind the cover of a fat hymnbook. It seemed very funny because everyone was supposed to be so solemn...
Germany has its industry, England its stolidity, and America its ingenuity, but to France has fallen the priceless gift of arousing the world to laughter. While governments tremble and nations totter on the brink of war, a solemn conclave meets in Paris, not to decide the next premier nor to formulate new regulations to assist the birthrate, but--to select the best chef in France...
...group of solemn judges, their faces reflective of the well-nigh sinister gravity of their office. They were the Hanging Committee. All week they labored, considering case after case, ever and again despaching small dockets which prescribed the action of certain hirelings who, with hammer, rope, wire, went about their business in the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan. They were preparing for the exhibition of the New Society of Artists. The doors of the gallery opened, the judgments of the committee and the consequent hangings stood patent to oglers...
...stood in knots waiting. The sheen of myriad deep-dyed silks, the richness of furs and laces and sparkling gems moved everywhere in splendid profusion. Occasionally way was made for the slow, scarlet dignity of a cardinal, gala in ceremonial robes, snowy linens and flashing rings, come to present solemn Christmas greetings to the Pope...
Egypt. Answering the criticism of Mr. Trevelyan, ex-Minister of Educa- tion, on Egypt, Mr. Chamberlain reiterated Britain's solemn determination to "regard as an unfriendly act any attempt at interference in the affairs of Egypt by another power, . . . to con- sider any aggression against the territory of Egypt as an act to be repelled with all the means at her command...