Word: formal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Homer began submitting drawings to the illustrated papers, which quickly accepted them. He moved to New York in 1859. took his only formal instruction in drawing at the National Academy of Design, studied painting with Frenchman named Frederic Rondel, to whom he went every Saturday night for a month to learn how to lay out a palette. ' his brushes. In 1861 Harper's Weekly him to Washington to make drawings the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, r sent him on the Peninsular Campaign to make war sketches. Harper's readers soon began to look forward...
...future Ethiopian-Italian policy of new British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden drove them to arguing last week that inevitably it must be the same as that of Sir Samuel Hoare. To argue thus was worse than premature. "Tony" Eden was still boning up on Egypt and engaged in formal amenities (see p. 19). From London that distinguished wiseacre Augur observed in the New York Times...
...that, at 13, Marian was moved along into the adult choir. After her father's death, her mother took a job as cleaning woman in a department store. At 16 Marian took over the support of the family, sang at community affairs, made what she calls her formal debut in a concert at a Negro school in Atlanta. Her church friends helped finance her study, felt richly rewarded when, in 1925, she was chosen from 300 applicants to solo with the New York Philharmonic at a Stadium Concert...
Author Cozzens does not make the usual formal disclaimer: that all his characters are fictitious. Even if he had, many an Episcopalian reader would have recognized at least two likenesses-Bishop William T. Manning, onetime Father Harvey Officer-may think they see in his hero a similarity to the late Rev. Ralph Pomeroy...
There have been experienced sure-voiced sopranos who have shown real feeling for Puccini's curving melodies. But as figures on the stage they have created little or no illusion. Last week Susanne Fisher of Sutton, W. Va., made her formal U. S. opera debut. Though hers was not an amazing voice, she did manage to be the most appealing, lifelike Madame Butterfly that the Metropolitan has presented in 14 years...