Word: formals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devout Catholic Bruning's last duties in Rome was to pay a formal call on the Pope. It was successful but slightly disorderly. Somebody removed Chancellor Bruning's silk hat from the German Embassy just as he was about to leave for the Vatican, leaving in its place a tiny topper that balanced precariously on his domelike forehead. At the Vatican the Swiss Guards were wrongly informed of the hour of his arrival. Parti-colored men at arms were still scurrying about the courtyard of San Damaso when the German automobile drew up. Foreign Minister Curtius, who is Protestant, paid...
...Yorktown sponsors met last week in Washington, voted to postpone formal action until the Sesquicentennial Association could be polled on the issue. Declared Dr. Goodwin afterwards: "If I were giving a birthday party to celebrate the birth of the nation, I would not have surgical instruments to accompany the cake. I do not admit, as suggested, that to omit the surrender scene would be like presenting the play Hamlet with Hamlet left out. . . . I do not think General Grant would desire to have the surrender at Appomattox repeated in a scene. He was too generous. Nor do I think George...
...extended to 90 min., 45 min. being devoted to discussion and preparation of the next day's lesson. Staggered and rotating, the school schedule was revised to permit all subjects to share equally the advantageous hours of the day. As a proper setting for the plan, the dingy, formal old schoolroom desks in Reid Hall-carved by four generations of Lake Foresters-were ripped out. Tables, chairs, businesslike office desks were installed. A classroom at L. F. A. now looks like the board room of a successful but curiously youthful business house. Last week Headmaster Richards was able...
...Akron, must be passed by Lieutenant Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle, Navy inspector on the job, before the ship is taken out for tests. Test flights warranting, the Akron may fly to the National Air Races at Cleveland sometime between Aug. 29 and Sept. 7, thence to Lakehurst for formal commissioning in the service of the Navy...
President Hoover was not so certain. He kept repeating the gist of his formal announcement, that the Holiday had been accepted "in principle by all the important creditor governments...