Word: formality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These concerts, which will be open to Union Members only, and which will be formal, constitute an attempt of the management to enlarge the system of short Sunday evening programs formerly in vogue, which have drawn an audience varying from 200 to 500. It is hoped that this series of six will be even more popular...
...President Coolidge telephoned Governor Trumbull's mansion in Hartford, Conn., formally to congratulate his son John on the formal announcement of his engagement to marry Miss Florence Trumbull. It was Governor & Mrs. Trumbull's silver (25th) wedding anniversary...
...students in the University, both foreign and American are invited as guests of the Council. Refreshments will follow the formal discussion which is limited to one hour...
...insiders who constitute "the works" of the House. Some are prominent, some merely proficient. All are influential, in that they control important blocs of votes on the House floor. This inner group is an indefinite organization, based largely on personal relationships. It operates more by common consent than by formal sanction. It frames the House's policies, decides which measures it wants to pass-and can pass-and in what order they will be taken...
...More formal concerts have a role that no person shall enter the concert hall during the progress of a given piece of music. The fact that the time and place are such as to cast a general flavor of informality over the organ recitals in Appleton Chapel is no excuse for yesterday's catch-as-catch-can type of entry. There is always at least one usher at these musicals for the purpose of dispensing programs. His duties might well be extended to include the detaining of late comers without the door until the number being played at the time...