Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pops date back to the summer of 1885 when the Boston Symphony Orchestra was only four years old. There was then started the project of a supplementary series of concerts of popular character to suit the warmer season. They were modelled after the "Bilse" Concerts of Berlin, the formal rows of seats and tables were removed and tables were so installed so that one might sip wine or beer, munch a sandwich or smoke, while listening to a waltz of Strauss or a march of Sousa...
...lament of Mr. Walter Prichard Eaton which is reprinted in these columns is but a formal expression of feeling shared by many Harvard men. Professor Baker has gone and as long as his work continues to be a force in the modern American theatre--and that it is a force Mr. Eaton has ably proved in the remainder of his article--Harvard must be content to berate herself for her own stupidity. Every achievement of the Yale Theatre is an emblem of Harvard's negligence...
...recent "riot" ease, President Lowell's demand for the resignation of the four policemen whom he cites as having acted with "unnecessary brutality" will be welcomed as a logical sequence in the interests of justice. Heretofore only one of the two parties involved has been brought into formal inquiry; now the other side will be subjected to investigation...
Thus the rumors. On the other hand, President Coolidge has repeatedly expressed approval of and confidence in Secretary Kellogg. The White House has issued definite, formal denial of reported changes in the Cabinet...
...Mexico City the U. S. Embassy made formal protest last week to the Mexican Government at the murder in Mexico during the past month of three U. S. citizens: George Holmes, slain in the state of Chihuahua; Edgar M. Wilkins, killed in Jalisco; and Frederick C. Combs who was done to death in Sonora...