Word: informality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came to Mount Auburn to lose themselves in the shady walks. James Russell Lowell used to wander through Mount Auburn's glades "in pursuit of poetic thoughts," according to one noted writer, who also noted that Franklin Pierce was lost in thought under a tree there when he was informed that he had been nominated to the Presidency. Of course, we too were lost in contemplation, but since no one rushed to inform us of any impending elections, or great poetical thoughts, we just thought of the mist and the rain...
...opposition was heating up a parliamentary griddle on which to roast him because of graft in the Cocoa Marketing Board, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah broke into the debate and read off a dispatch just received from British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd. "I have the honor to inform you," the dispatch said, "that Her Majesty's government will at the first available opportunity introduce into the United Kingdom Parliament a bill to accord independence to the Gold Coast, and that, subject to parliamentary approval, Her Majesty's government intend that independence should come on March...
...Communists in the New York City school system and the dismissal of one municipal college professor, New York State Education Commissioner James E. Allen Jr. ruled that though a public-school teacher must tell all about his own past activities, his superiors have no right to force him to inform on others. "A school system," said Allen, "which sets one teacher against another in this manner is not conducive toward the strength and cohesion which need to exist in order to instill character into the student body...
...calm, low voice, Colonel Edward L. Hutchinson read from the paper before him: "It is my duty as president of this court to inform you that the court sentences you to be discharged from the service with a bad-conduct discharge, to forfeit $30 a month for nine months, to be confined at hard labor for nine months and to be reduced in grade to private...
...Just Like Us." Report was to be a series of six half-hour filmed documentaries, to be presented by the BBC-TV in cooperation with the U.S. Information Agency. The series was farmed out to NBC, which took it on a nonprofit basis. London-born Staffer Don Cash, 46, was assigned to produce and direct it, NBC Washington Correspondent Joseph C. Harsch to do the narration. Said Cash, an old and practiced British movie hand: "We quickly decided that the best way to inform is to entertain. That meant that each subject would be taken seriously, but treated lightheartedly...