Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trocadero, public assembly hall hard by the Eiffel tower, was made ready for the formal convention of 1200 delegates. State of ficials laid out the 3,500,000-franc reception fund which the French parliament lately supplied...
...member of the Free State Parliament to take his seat until he has taken the oath of allegiance. With Mr. De Valera swore the 44 deputies of his Fianna Fail or Republican party. To a strictly judicial ear such mass swearing must have seemed to mean only one thing: formal abandonment by Eamon De Valera of his life-long battle to carve asunder from Britain an "Irish Republic...
...Montreal, Mr. Baldwin prepared to hammer and thrust home his concept of trade unity within the Empire by peeling off his coat and vest before an audience of 800 businessmen, many clad in formal day attire. As his hearers gratefully followed the Prime Minister's example, he began to speak with vivid power, thus...
...THEATRE IN LIFE?Nicolas Evreinov?Brentano ($3.50). M. Evreinov's Russian ingenuity has excelled in such varied activities as circus performing, archaeology, law, novels, history and flute-playing, but his chief passion and reputation are in the theatre. This book, a more or less formal attempt to enunciate a philosophy, elaborates Shakespeare's dictum about all the world being a stage. Poet Robert Burns would have been interested, for M. Evreinov touches also on the problem of seeing oneself as seen by others. "The Theatre of Oneself," says M. Evreinov, is conducted by every human being in all those acts...
...Baldwin's luncheon speech fully reciprocated the compliments of H. R. H., but the Prime Minister's words at a conference with newsgatherers were less formal and more like his comfortable, pipe-nursing self. As the correspondents entered he remarked: "It's a nice morning I've brought with...