Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basis for a concordat. She sniffed around the Italian Court, and selected the Princess Mafalda, second daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele, as a suitable helpmeet for her fourth child, Prince Nicholas, now a midshipman on the British cruiser Benbow. With Rumania, foreign policy follows the Queen. She planned a formal visit for herself and King Ferdinand in April, not only to discuss the marriage, but the possibility of closer and more confidential relations between the two Latin nations that flank the turbulent Balkans. The Italian Court sent the Rumanian monarchs a formal invitation, which was accepted...
Then it was that Mussolini upset the lentils. He sent the Rumanian Government a note, telling the Rumanian Government to postpone the formal visit of the monarchs to Rome, unless the Rumanian Government gave some satisfaction to private Italian creditors who are owed 80,000,000 gold lire (roughly, $16,000,000) for food and textiles...
...hopes to send each of his four sons there to study. As an educator, and as a clergyman he has been prominently identified with students for the past twenty-five years. He believes that the reason young men do not attend church regularly is because religion has become too formal...
...Akeley would not make a formal comment, but wondered audibly in the presence of a reporter: "Could it be that there was a fundamentalist on the exhibition committee...
...religious attitude of students at Harvard and Oxford, Mr. Pomeroy remarked that argumentative discussion and original journalism are not as much in evidence in America as in England. That the first part of this conclusion is justified has been obvious recently at Oxford-Harvard debates; the American is formal where the Englishman is personal. The present critic is correct, also, in his analysis. With the departure of the toddy-bowl and the clay pipe has gone the American student's tendency to foregather of evenings, and talk endlessly of shoes and ships and sealing-wax. And the pace is possibly...