Word: formality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agitation about the stadium! Was it not sufficient that the omnipotent athletic publicists were able to get so much printed about the matter without having tried to bring it to the forum and working up a factitious interest in it? It was carefully stated that the "parliamentary rather than formal manner of debate" would be used. Figs! You might as well talk about draping the stage of the Odeon with meshed gold and silver and then put on a puppet show...
...target of Lawyer Gabaldon's attack, which historians called the most bellicose formal pronouncement ever made by a Filipino Commissioner in the 30 years the U. S. has governed the Territory, was "Powerful forces that you do not see . . . enormous sums of American capital...
Back in Washington from their inspection of Pennsylvania's bituminous social carbuncle, Senator Gooding and colleagues of the Interstate Commerce subcommittee drew up chairs and summoned witnesses to put their investigation on paper, in formal style. The first witness was President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers...
Once an Eastern newspaper ran on its front page a box headed, "Who Robert Dollar Is." Under this caption were listed his formal titles and offices-President Dollar Steamship Company, Robert Dollar Company, Admiral Oriental Company, Dollar Portland Lumber Company, etc. etc., Director of the American International Corporation, Anglo-London and Paris Bank, San Francisco Savings Bank. Dollar ships, Dollar wood, Dollar banks, Dollar offices in eastern cities the smooth plate-glass windows of which are never molested even when yellow men demonstrate with sabotage the unpopularity of foreign capital. Listed, these things suggest but fail to explain Robert Dollar...
...Debating Union has decided to make the debate parliamentary rather than formal, in order to obtain a representative poll of the undergraduate feeling in regard to the question. Five minute speeches will be allowed to any undergraduate or alumnus who wishes to express his views on the subject...