Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hague Settlement. Two days more were needed to whip the Midnight agreement into formal shape. A third day saw it signed by all the delegations at a final plenary session, after which the Conference contentedly adjourned. Basically the settlement thus reached is twofold financial and political...
Somehow or other the party became a marked success. There was no formal banquet table, no rigid order of precedence. Queen Wilhelmina had seen to that. She knew that Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden would be outranked as a mere treasury official by the several prime ministers and foreign ministers present?and certainly Mr. Snowden would have been furious had he been seated below Prime Minister Eleutherios Venizelos of Greece! Therefore the delegates were seated not at one straight table but at ten round ones. Each statesman might fancy that where he sat was the head...
...beer slops and iodoform, two men, their seconds, the doctors and judge stood on a sawdust-covered dais. "At other tables," said Correspondent Hunt, "students were drinking pale Pilsener beer, as calmly as if they were about to attend a lecture on philosophy." The duelists faced each other, "formal as bride and groom marching to the altar, but far less nervous." Like disciplined gamecocks they stood, a black scarf about each jugular, a pad about each middle. To make the maiming cleanly, each blade was swabbed with antiseptic...
When securities are offered for sale there is usually a recitation of facts almost as formal as the Litany. The nature of the business, its earnings, the equity of the securities, the purpose to which the proceeds of the offering will be put (whether acquisition of new properties, enlargement of factories, new equipment) are all set forth...
...interesting Santa Fe, N. Mex.,* scampered Charles Augustus Lindbergh last week,† with a new nubble in the crown of his fame. Henceforth he must be considered the U. S.'s first flying archeologist, for the week before he initiated in the neighborhood of Santa Fe the first formal attempts of U. S. archeologists to locate digging sites by aerial photographs...