Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...director of the show is Paul Anderson who has been leading these soirces for ten consecutive years. Anderson believes that the feature of the show will be a ballet set around a spiffed Bacchus who wanders in a formal garden encircled by marble statues. As he becomes increasingly pickled, the figures dance, and when he assumes unconsciousnss they regain their pedestals...
...formal, old-style fund-drive was too cumbersome for U. S. restlessness. Americans last week formed committees, threw binges, sponsored concerts, balls, dinners, benefits, theatricals; debutantes carried jingling boxes through night clubs, collected from workmen; bankers put coin-boxes by their wickets. For their Fatherland and for fun, old Finn Record-Miler Paavo Nurmi and young Finn Record-Two-Miler Taisto Maki finished tuning their leg-muscles to watchspring fineness, began junketing over the U. S., through subways, a strange language, strange food, one-night stands. Their goal: benefit funds for Finland. Finland was the fashion...
This week the conflict went beyond peevishness, developed into a first-class row. Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano sent to British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax a stiff, formal note, warning that "the coal in question meets an indispensable need in the life and labor of the Italian people," criticizing Britain's coal blockade system it declared the blockade "is of the kind to disturb and compromise economic and political relations . . . between Italy and Great Britain," served notice that Britain would be responsible for "further developments." Next day Britain defiantly announced that it had taken into custody two Italian ships...
...Formal education should be suspended during puberty, resumed when the student has some experience of living. There should be no "cultural" teaching...
...right off our chest: "The Lion Has Wings" is British propaganda, and does not make the slightest pretensions of being anything else. At the very outset the narrator tells us in a formal prologue that we are to be shown "what the British are thinking and how they feel." Thus, unless you object on principle to other people's feelings, you should not object at all to the Lion making his point...