Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government of the United States is gratified that it has been possible to reach a solution of the problem of establishing in Honduras a constitutional government. . . . The Government of the United States contemplates with pleasure the resumption of formal relations with the Government of Honduras upon the inauguration on Feb. 1 of the new constitutional authorities...
...making the awards the jury gave out a report which stated among other things that "The Harvard Advertising Awards were founded in the belief that formal recognition of notable excellence in the planning and execution of advertising will stimulate its improvement, thereby making it serve business and society more effectively...
Most famed of all this group that dreamed so long in the Northamptonshire house is Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire. She stands against a marble balustrade, a flight of steps at her feet leading to a formal park. Her dress is cream colored, her coif, built up like a Chestertonian paragraph, is starred with pearls, garnished with plumes of red and grey; from her right arm depends a gauzy scarf. Walpole wrote of her: "She effaces all without being a beauty, but her youthful figure, lively modesty and modest familiarity make her a prodigy...
...Widener of today is cold, formal, business-like, if not super-efficient. It is a ponderous mechanism which only the skilled graduate student can rightly use. It should be the heart and soul of the University. It should be a treasure troves of knowledge, but not one that is locked to all but the initiated...
...formal drawing-room, softly rugged-the studio of Station WEAF, Manhattan-sat a score of notables in evening garb. In the broadcasting room stood John McCormack. In front of him was a microphone. He sang Adeste Fideles with quartet and orchestra, the Berceuse from Jocelyn. Then Miss Lucrezia Bori rendered LaPaloma, airs from La Traviata; then the two sang a duet from the same opera. Both were nervous at first, lacking the stimulant of a physical audience ; they warmed to their work, their voices were perfectly reproduced, even to the finest nuances of shading. Between numbers, the announcer...