Word: formal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unconfirmed rumor has been unearthed that Professor Merriman has sent a challenge to Julian L. Coolidge '95, Lowell's Master, to a formal bowling bout...
...major figure in British politics, Jim Thomas seemed to grow away from his old friends in the railways. London Society took him up to discover that Jim Thomas was one of the best bridge players in town. No after dinner speaker was more in demand because, after the formal speaking was over, Jim Thomas could generally be found in a corner, regaling his friends with a rare collection of off-color stories. Ever since the night when he dined at Buckingham Palace with the buckles of his knee breeches held together with safety pins, he was one of King George...
...Formal Celebration in the Tercentenary open air theatre will begin at 2.30 o'clock Friday morning. The end of the celebration will come that evening with an undergraduate dinner given in honor of the delegates at the Harvard Club of Boston...
...efficiency of the Department. At present few people realize that, in the absence of tutors, the advisers should be available to students for consultation and help. Topics demanding special explanation and correlation can best be handled in tutorial conferences. The situation clearly calls for a more definite and formal arrangement, since students now hesitate to go to their advisers for fear of imposing on their time...
Docking in Manhattan after a year in Sweden, Greta Garbo granted the first formal interview of her career to newshawks. After ten minutes of evasive chit-chat she rose to go, was cornered by deep-bosomed Cinemactress Fifi D'Orsay who gurgled "GeeGee, do you remember Fifi? I am so 'appee...