Word: formalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office at No. 50 Broadway last week Louis Levy sat biting off bits of an unlit cigar, tossing them on the floor. Not until after the entry of the formal order would the disbarment be complete, would still be subject to possible stays. Disbarment from practice in this Federal Court would not prevent Louis Levy from continuing the practice of law in State courts. But almost automatically a record of the proceedings and Judge Knox's opinion would go to the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court. If disbarred by the Appellate Division the name of Louis...
...years after her coronation Wilhelmina married a dashing young lieutenant of the Prussian Guards, Henry Wladimir Albert Ernst, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Prince Henry was fond of meeting up with sea captains and artists, and led a hard life playing second fiddle for 33 years in a severely formal and moral court. The Queen was far from happily married, and the Prince was far from popular with the strict Dutch. Wilhelmina came very near dying from a miscarriage. Her only child, Juliana, the present Heir to the Throne, was born in 1909. The Prince Consort died...
This latter group, disgusted by excesses of emotionalism and structural looseness, made a vigorous attempt to clarify their writing and restore classical formal principles. They threw out or slighted soft, luscious sound combinations and meandering formal styles which predominated in the music to which they objected. Now a gracious, less rigid type of writing seems to be coming back, perhaps because composers feel themselves on safe ground formally and not apt to fall into the excesses against which they reacted...
...past ten years. There is an obsession, as readers of his novels would expect, with death; a strong interest in the "macabre" (a word he nowhere uses); a pervasive fear of war, of revolution, of the end of civilization; the constant meditation of a devout man who has abandoned formal religion. There are "portraits" of Gide, Stein, Cocteau; excellent observations on painting, sculpture, music, films, above all on writing...
Although most of these groups are united in general ideals, they split on several issues. Most notable of these is the formal complaint filed by the Harvard Anti-War Committee against the Harvard Student Union for issuing nonunion made pamphlets. "We are especially indignant because the Harvard Student Union claims to be friendly towards labor," the complaint reads...