Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...starched white bosoms, and hundreds of rustling ladies. Back of them stood a new, long, spacious building faced with marble and glass; inside it other crowds could be seen, swishing past its plate-glass panels like frilly fish in a bright aquarium. Occasion for these beautiful doings was the formal opening of the long-awaited, permanent home of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (since 1937 temporarily camped in offices and basement galleries of the TIME & LIFE Building in Rockefeller Center). In equal parts swank, sober and glamorous, the company (more than 6,000) included such varied personages...
...first time a University president will be giving a teachers union the open recognition of a formal address. President Conant's speech, which foreshadows an era of improved University-Union relations, will be off the record...
Winthrop House is transforming its terrace and courtyard into a Viennese garden tonight for its annual spring buffet supper and formal dance. Leon Mayers will provide the music for the outdoor festivities which will last from 10 to 2 o'clock...
...Pretty brunette" Bernice Bryers will do the vocals for the band, and entertainment during the intermissions will be provided by George Kuhn '42 with his harmonica. Preceding the dance, there will be a formal dinner in the House Dining Hall, to which members of the House and their guests are invited. Inter-House dining slips will be honored...
...often carried him to vacuous extremes, had command of form and gift for thematic invention admired even by Bach who borrowed extensively from his works. The Longy School faculty concert tonight at Agassiz Theatre will present Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"--decidedly worth hearing as a typical example of the formal clarity and facility of this less familiar music of the age of Bach and Handel...