Word: formality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...success will ever attend a formal University restaurant," he declared yesterday, pressing a choice Havana upon the reluctant newsgather. "Students demand variety, above all else in their food. The reason Memorial Hall failed was because the fare got to be institutional. The certainty of baked beans on Wednesday and Saturdays becomes perfectly intolerable to men. Now here in may place...
...Stevens Point?" some one had asked her. "Surely to begin a fiftieth anniversary tour-?" "Vy not?" Ernestine Schumann Hemk had answered. Should she go back to Europe, to Gratz where she had given her first formal concert at the age of fifteen? Should she go back to the little Austrian town where she grew up, the homely, hard-working child of a Bohemian soldier and an Italian mother? To be sure she had earned her first money there playing dance tunes on a tinkly piano in an old restaurant where the peasants gathered on holidays. Ninety-six cents...
...Instrumental Clubs will make their formal debut November 5, the night before the Princeton game in a joint concert with the Princeton musical clubs at Sanders Theatre. There are 120 members in the four branches of the Instrumental Clubs who will perform next month at the Princeton festival...
...from within, the life of the quarter does not present the roseate aspect visible to chance Occidental visitors. The geisha must undergo a lengthy educational process during which they are taught to dance, sing, and play the long necked unmelodious samisen. Further instruction renders them expert in all the formal minutiae of welcoming, supping with, attending, and bidding good-bye to their clients...
...Carleton H. Palmer, President of the Association of Junior Leagues of America, busy wife of President Palmer of E. R. Squibb & Sons (drugs) : "In connection with the formal opening of our Association's national club and headquarters in Manhattan, I explained to newsgatherers that the Junior League represents the most serious endeavor ever made by women of leisure to share intelligently in the life of the community and that the steady growth of what might be called a youth movement, begun 25 years ago in one city (New York) has now spread its network over our entire country. Dues...