Word: solemnizes
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...solemn ceremony took place on Capitol Hill. The Capitoline Halls were filled with bemedaled Black Shirts and uniformed officers. Senator Cremonesi, in opening the proceedings, explained that the high honor "is reserved for the highest and is coveted by many but granted to few," and was bestowed upon Benito for his services in "saving Italy from the forces of anarchy and revolution, and preparing the way for new conquests and new glories." He then dwelt upon what a high honor it was considered all down the ages to be able to say Civis Romanus...
...interesting experiment, but scarcely a heaven-storming masterpiece. Based on a poem* by Alfred Noyes, which first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, it tells, in music, the tale of the return to earth of the spirits of soldiers slain in the late War. Instead of the solemn masses, purity, virtue, which they expect to find as a result of their sacrifices, they discover shameful and riotous dancing, sinful and boisterous merrymaking. The music is a fairly effective translation of this situation into sound. The mood throughout is one of gruesome hilarity. Ordinary dance-rhythms alternate with the booming...
...French authorities returned the body to Germany, where the funeral of the saboteur was made an occasion for a wild nationalist outbreak. The coffin was transhipped in solemn state across Berlin. It was stored in the room at the Anhalter railway station reserved for visitors of royal rank. After speeches by members of the Cabinet, Nationalist throngs sang Deutschland Ober Alles. A forest of flags surrounded the cortege, and bore the anti-Jewish swastika cross, old Monarchist and Prussian flags, death's head flags with the motto Mit Gott für Kaiser und der Vaterland. As the royalist...
...somebody else's name in the papers now and then-Jack Dempsey's or John Ringling's. . . . "I would go to a motion picture show if I could be sure I would not see pictures of an ex-Cabinet officer. . . . "If a man is too solemn, they'll think the whole weight of the world is on his shoulders. If he is gay, they'll think he is frivolous. The only thing to do is 'be ourself.'. . . "I have not a sore head or a sore toe. . . . "I have no personal feeling against...
...even tea threat of violence from international affairs, we must devise means for arraying against in natural hatred and loathing. Our plan, by taking away all promise of profit in war, would destroy a great deal of the incentive for war. It would make the declaration of war as solemn, and as repugnant a thought as possible to all classes of people...