Word: solemnizes
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Today is the Gentleman's Easter. A month ago his sisters and his cousins and his aunts blossomed forth in the newest creations of millinery. Two weeks later, solemn Seniors donned the strange headgear known unaccountably as mortar-boards, and appeared in the Yard with a dignity that was the envy of underclassmen. Today more man is to have his turn, and he prays for the sunshine as eagerly as a Senior on the day of the Picnic. For today, by common consent and the decree of Harvard Square Haberdashery, Inc., is Straw...
...right is denied them, and racial antipathy will be kept open. If the Dyer Bill is defeated, it must be only because a more effective remedy has been produced. If it is passed, even though imperfect, it will at least have the value of putting on this crime the solemn stamp of the nation's disapproval...
...original Thanksgiving Day was sacred. We American have a lighthearted way of turning any holiday to merriment, no matter how, solemn it may have been in the past. After all this is not an unfortunate trait, for an occasion may be honored better by enjoyment than by solemn sighs; and that especially if we keep in mind--as who can not at this moment of history--our gratitude for a successful year...
...understand it. He might be writing a monumental work on the history of travel, showing how the moderns passed from one country to another, and with what motives. This little interchange might seem to be a precious bit of documentation for him, but what is its real explanation. The solemn senators did not say. They may have winked or smiled at each other, but the stenoraphers could not get that down. So, as far as the record goes, it must remain a mystery why Americans. Consule Volstead, liked to make trips to Canada or Cuba. New York Times...
...this matter of patriotism it is the solemn duty of every man to think clearly what, if any, are its moral limitations, and what duties and responsibilities it involves. It is his duty to try to discover when and where and how other moral obligations limit those that he owes to his country, and how far his country is limited in its moral freedom of action by the duties that it owes to other portions of mankind. Future wars, future calamities, future miseries incalculable, or, on the other hand, future prosperity, future intellectual and spiritual advance, may depend upon solving...