Word: formality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fred W. Johnson, lawyer from Rock Springs, Wyo. There was a knowing look in their eyes as they discussed the prime purpose of their meeting? to "consider" who was the "most available" candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination next year. They named no names until all had assembled for formal business...
From the Henry Russel Shaw Fund a stipend of $1000 has been awarded to M. C. Stevens '27 for the purpose of "supplementing his formal education by the broadening and cultivating influences which come from acquantance with other countries...
...lesser Republican, Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York, made so bold as to stage a formal Hughes rally in Manhattan, explaining that the one-time Secretary of State, onetime U. S. Supreme Court Justice and "best mind in the Republican Party" was the only man to pit against Democrat Alfred Emanuel Smith for the votes of Business and Labor. Celebrities were few at the Fish-Hughes rally, but Boomer Fish was not rebuked by the Party chiefs...
...litter lay Empress Nagako. Erect and stern, Emperor Hirohito surveyed the scene before him. To one side court bards chanted a portion of the classics in a low tone. The great of the Empire surrounded the Imperial group. In it was Premier Güchi Tanaka, clad immaculately in Occidental formal attire. Hands placed together, he prayed, standing, eyes wide open, before a flag-adorned shrine...
...hardly necessary to extend a formal welcome to the new graduate students of Harvard University, since the name Harvard itself symbolizes all that is finest in the traditions of scholarship. Nevertheless it is the CRIMSON'S desire, as the vehicle of undergraduate expression, once more to recall that the graduate student should consider himself an integral part of Harvard and not, as has been so often the case with men whose college work has been done in some other institution and who have taken graduate courses elsewhere, merely an appendage whose sole connection with the university is the fact that...