Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days later the Rules Committee produced a resolution, the adoption of which would send the disputed measure to conference in the regular way, with the House conferees in formal disagreement with the Senate but free to bargain to the best of their ability. In effect, this resolution was aimed at the Senate amendment. In adopting the resolution the House predicted its final vote on the Senate's $24,000,000 amendment?against...
...offered by the Harvard Summer School of 1929, it was announced yesterday by P. P. Chase '00, dean of the Harvard Summer School, and University Marshal. The courses, which will begin on July 8 and last through August 17, are open to both men and women without formal application, and can be applied for credit at the University of the student...
...hotels with tourists. 4) The authority of the Crown and the extent of the crown lands are still so vaguely defined that in practice the Prince-and in his name the Casino Syndicate-has frequently acted in a manner arbitrary, unjust, scandalous. Finally the resigned and angry councilors made formal demand upon Prince Pierre that he summon his father-in-law Prince Louis from Paris and set up a commission to investigate and right the wrongs of the 22,153 Monégasques...
With pomp and circumstance last week Italians began their formal opera season. In Rome Soprano Claudia Muzio sang in Norma and His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele went to listen, with Queen Elena and Princess Giovanna. In Milan the opera was Meistersinger, the ovation for Conductor Arturo Toscanini. He leaves Milan soon for the U. S. where he will conduct the last half-season of Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony...
Three times now George Gershwin has set foot over the line that divides formal and informal music; three times taken his own jazz notions, compounded them seriously and presented them, not for any singing or dancing they might invoke, but for listening purposes only. First was the Rhapsody in Blue and with it much talk of "classical jazz" gospeled by Paul Whiteman. Then came the Concerto in F, but by that time Gershwin had become a creed with many and the Concerto had its premiere in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall with Walter Damrosch and his New York Symphony...