Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches from Cairo reported that the French have destroyed nearly a third of Damascus and burned 4,000 houses, during "punitive bombardments" and raids upon the rebellious native quarters since the much bruited formal bombardment of Damascus (TIME...
...University Glee Club will give its last formal performance of the season tonight when a selected group of 75 men will alternate with the orchestra at the Pops concert in providing the music for the evening. G. W. Woodworth '24, who has been acting conductor during the past year, in the absence of Dr. Davison, will lead the Club tonight...
...Speaker. He and his cronies run the House by dint of goodwill and numbers -because, you see, politics in the House isn't half so individualistic as in the Senate. Everybody likes Nick. He is the likable boss, although that lean stiff man, Tilson of Connecticut, bears the formal title of Republican leader. The impressive old man over there is Burton of Ohio. He used to be a Senator, but now is back in his old haunts. For all his 74 years, he is astonishingly able, active...
...made his formal rejection in a letter to Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, chairman of the Pulitzer Advisory Board, in which he stated that all prizes are dangerous, that good manners in a novel are more important than literary merit as qualification for the prize, that novelists had better refuse the Pulitzer Prize unless they want its administrators to become a supreme intellectual court, impossible to challenge, like the French Academy. Sophisticates perused these reasons and put on a wise air. "Very ingenious," they said, "but the real reason is . . ." And then they murmured that explanatory, vastly inclusive word, "publicity...
...Formal peace negotiations began last week at Oujda, Morocco, between two Franco-Spanish plenipotentiaries (General Simon and Senor Olivan) and the Foreign Wazir (Minister), Si Mohammed Azarkhan, of the long embattled Riffian Sultan, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abd-El-Krim. (TIME, April 19 et ante...