Word: formal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This dance is the seventh on the Gold Coasters' busy social schedule. Four of the previous ones were informal tea affairs after the football games with the festivities lasting from 6.30 to 8 o'clock. The other two dances were of a formal nature held in the evening...
...Plan." General MacArthur's trips to Europe in 1931 and 1932 were not quite the pleasure junkets which gossips imagined. He was investigating with the concentration of his student days the organization plans of foreign armies. Nor did his conventional forays into Washington society (he much prefers less formal fun) give proper perspective to the long evenings spent at his office and home across the Potomac at Fort Myer, digesting and arranging the material he had gathered. Result of these studies was his ''Four-Army Plan" of mobilization and command...
...Silk City of America" made a rare move in municipal finance by publishing as paid advertising in local and Manhattan newspapers an annual report. Occasionally a reform municipal administration draws up balance sheets or income & outgo statements which most editors regard as sufficiently newsworthy to print free. But a formal advertisement was something new to Wall Street. Mayor John V. Hinchliffe touched on Paterson history, Paterson population (141,000), Paterson business advantages, forgotten Paterson products (overalls, wall paper, airplanes, jute, art glass). During 1934 the city was run on a strictly cash basis, reporting a surplus of $414,001 after...
...Skinner Weber '36 will head the list of ushers for the Acacia Club Spring Formal Ball to be given in the Empire Room, Hotel Kenmore tonight...
...Though the commuters have an equal opportunity for "a formal academic education," for them "the University makes no . . . . provisions to encourage . . . . the development of the intangible qualities of character and personality which appear a natural result of the residential environment...