Word: formality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such agents- porch-climbers, telephoners, buttonholers. classmates-may soon become a matter for the attention of Citizen Calvin Coolidge. Last week he accepted nomination to New York Life Insurance Co.'s board of directors and assignment to the agency committee where he will specialize in "human contacts." His formal election will occur in May. Twenty-eight years ago this same company considered Mr. Coolidge a doubtful risk and hesitated to issue him a $3,000 policy because he was 19 lbs. underweight...
Prohibition. Minister Massey delivered to Statesman Stimson Canada's formal note of protest against the sinking of the Canadian registered rumrunner I'm Alone, sunk by U. S. Coast Guards men 200 miles off the Louisiana coast (TIME, April 1, et seq.}. Statesman Stim son described the epistle as "temperate and conciliatory." He sat himself down to prepare a reply...
...Dean Nichols impending departure does more than throw into relief one side of the Assistant Dean question. His contact with the student body wherever it has been of an official or less formal nature has made him a host of undergraduate friends who will feel the College's loss as a personal...
...Gann's troubles begin. First he was brought in from the cozy Cleveland Park home to take up residence, with the Vice President and Mrs. Gann, in a twelve-room suite at the Mayflower Hotel. Then he found himself being led off to great formal dinners with people he didn't know and who obviously didn't know him. A round-faced, bespectacled man, shorter than the large Mrs. Gann, the Vice President's brother-in-law sidled into inconspicuous drawing-room corner, spoke when spoken to, wore a mask of polite pleasure...
...there was no music in the Embassy. And there were only, two women-Mme. Salambier, long the Ambassador's social secretary, and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Parmely Herrick. The other 400 persons who jammed to suffocation the largest room in the Embassy were all men, clad in formal mourning...