Word: formal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refused to put up any formal defense, on the ground that the whole proceeding was illegal. Nevertheless, on the third morning the A. F. of L.'s absent twelfth vice president, David Dubinsky, head of International Ladies' Garment Workers, which belongs to the C. I. O., dramatically returned from Europe, made his appearance at the council table. Promptly Fourth Vice President John Coefield of the plumbers' and steamfitters' union challenged his right to be present because his union was on trial. Astutely Mr. Dubinsky reminded Mr. Coefield that, if that rule were followed, President Green...
...more to invite Premier King and Lord Tweedsmuir to the White House. Then the official party adjourned for luncheon to the Governor-General's summer home in the Citadel. Afterwards there were private conferences on public problems common to the two countries, a sightseeing tour through showers, a formal tea and a departure by train via Montreal for Vermont...
...Hotel Sherry-Netherland one day last week were picked representatives of the U. S. and British Press. Their host was Joseph Michael Schenck, massive, imperturbable board chairman of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. To each newshawk Mr. Schenck handed, not a highball in the Hollywood tradition, but a formal statement confirming the biggest cinema deal of the year. Then Mr. Schenck plunked himself down in the centre of a divan, flanked by the two other principals in the triple play: his younger brother and competitor, President Nicholas Michael Schenck of Loew's, Inc., and President Isidore Ostrer of Gaumont...
...that's only part of the story. Lord Burghley ran in evening clothes. TIME did a sloppy bit of reporting here-neglected to mention whether 1) Tuxedo or formal, 2) stiff or soft bosom shirt, 3) high shoes or dancing pumps...
Thus, though he appears like anything but a typical politician, John Hamilton is precisely that, in formal outline. Subjectively he differs, too. He has a terrific energy not ordinarily coupled with the free & easy friendliness that is political good manners. His wife, who will have nothing to do with politics, is not popular with politicians and lives apart from it all in their chaste colonial house in Topeka, quietly collecting American antiques. For all his animal energy and physical charm, his nerves at times go haywire and he is not infrequently guilty of the gross political sin of tactlessness...