Word: formality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five years the Little Theatre Tournament, held in Manhattan for the David Belasco Cup, has symbolized the removal of amateur theatricals from small-town drawing-rooms and carriage sheds to more or less formal theatres. The contestants produce one-act plays only, either new or published...
...account of life at his English Public School he notes the wisdom of "normality" and the danger of "introspection" in a boy's religion. He frankly owns that "there is more in the habits of formal religion than I used to think--In spite of the fact that Christ was a very silent partner in the life of us boys, he was a very real companion." Charles Kingsley was a kinsman, and "the first person to give me the idea that religion made men efficient." His clinical work in a London Hospital, graphically described, stirred searching questions which cut deep...
...City Hall came a more formal reception. Rising in reply to Mayor Walker's speech of welcome, Admiral Hughes clutched his sword-hilt, glanced nervously at his staff who, he said, might laugh at his attempts at public speaking. Said...
Following the formal concert, all members of the University are invited to mount the Widener steps and join in the singing of college songs...
...never wears checks, is not fond of striped effects, shuns soft collars, prefers 'black footgear to brown, high to low. He wears no jewelry save a ring (left third finger). No fop, the President disturbed the White House valet by putting three cigars in the pocket of his formal evening clothes. The valet maintained that more than two cigars made a bulge in the pocket. The President answered that less than three cigars would not carry him through a long dinner...