Word: formality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Winter is in her face, a careful, formal face held in cautious leash to mask whatever emotions rage behind...
Discipline. One hundred Harvard Law School freshmen last week received a formal letter from Dean Roscoe Pound, which made them pale. Each one had cut his Saturday class to attend the Harvard-Brown football game, and now he read: "You are now listed as prima facie an undesirable student...
Commenting, last week, Marshal Foch continued: "I could have given a formal order [to Generals Pershing and Haig] but that is not how I worked. People obey badly when they obey against their will. I always preferred the role of counselor to that of chief. I preferred to convince everyone that my plan was possible, realizable and to give everyone a desire to carry it through...
...other, Il Duce sat down at his desk, stared straight before him, his gaze piercing and immovable. . . . When Il Duce's dramatic silence had begun to seem permanent, the President of the Chamber, Signor Casertano, at length plucked up courage to open the session, not with a formal speech but by shouting: "Long live Mussolini today! Long live Mussolini always...
...kitchen fire, her skirt drawn up to her knees, her toes resting on a woolworked cushion. She was to admit to her home that night, against her will and yet somehow with all her heart, a vast foreigner: a simple Swede, a blond HerculesApollo, whose strangely formal card contained the words: Hjalmar Johanson, Gymnastic Instructor. The storm passed in the night. But only with convulsive effort and in the space of a year did Polcastrians rid themselves of Harmer John, as they, first in affection, later in derision and finally in hate, miscalled him. During that year he encountered, with...