Word: formality
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...attempt to create a formal protest to President Conant's intervention plan, a number of prominent students, not representing any campus organization, met last Thursday afternoon. Among the sponsors of the petition are Benjamin A. Barnes '41, John W. Darr, Jr. '42, Eugene D. Keith '42, Spencer A. Klaw '41, Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr. '41, M. Rhodes Murphy '41, Eliot L. Richardson '41, John C. Robbins...
...stars and stripes outside his studio office, tacked up a sign proclaiming it a Marine recruiting station. After Thursday-night drills with his outfit, Woody would stride into Chasen's restaurant and climb aboard a stool in full regimental regalia. Hollywood said good-by to Woody at a formal dinner for 500 on an M. G. M. sound stage climaxed by a hectic scuffle for the check by the studio, the Screen Directors Guild, Producer Edward Mannix...
...years the U. S. Army officer's blunt-edged dress sabre has been a symbol of authority and tradition - and nothing more. Hung on only for formal parades and inspections, it has been an out-of-date nuisance, especially anomalous in Air Corps and mechanized outfits. Last week, having ruled out boots and spurs for motorized soldiers, the Army decided to throw out the sabre too. Also on the way out, the War Department announced, is the shiny Sam Browne belt, essentially designed to let an officer lug a sabre around without disarranging his waist belt. From...
...French Government issues the most formal denial to this implication. No measure of this kind was ever under discussion at the Franco-German meetings...
...believe in teaching art. It isn't something you can teach. The only thing I can do is keep students in a state of excitement about their work, to keep telling them that the worst thing they can do is to study, in the formal sense." Successor to famed Artist Grant Wood, this anti-teaching teacher is husky, slow-spoken, 36-year-old Fletcher Martin, whose drooping red mustachios make him look glummer than he is. Last week Manhattanites had a chance to see some of the examples with which Painter Martin keeps his Iowa classes excited. The Midtown...