Word: formality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Japan offered to send his body to this country aboard the cruiser Tama. President Coolidge expressed regret that was more than formal to the late Ambassador's nearest relative* -his brother, Frederick Bancroft, the historian...
...parties were given by the King and Queen. These simple, democratic functions, inaugurated after the War, are said to do the King more good than a stiff Scotch and soda. Peers, Ambassadors, Princes of India, clergymen, social leaders of every strata -some in toppers, patent leather shoes and formal afternoon attire, others in humble headgear, stouter footwear and business clothes-all rubbed shoulders. The King smiled. Americans were present: Mrs. Joseph R. Lamar, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. E. M. Townsend, New York; Mrs. John Lowell, Boston; Mrs. N. T. Bacon, Providence, R. I.; Mrs. A Crittenden Smith of Nebraska...
...Significance. "What pleasure," asked "the last of the French giants," of his secretary, "can you find in picking up the careless words that trickle down my old beard?" The secretary knew what Florianet and the Abbé Ledieu (French Boswells) had done for their masters, Voltaire and Bossuet. The formal biographers, already marshaling facts, will come here to make their pictures mobile...
...formal announcement was issued at White Court...
...Lipsky is also a member of the Executive Committee of the World Zionist Organization and, in this capacity recently paid a five months' visit to London and Palestine where he made an exhaustive study of conditions. On his return to the U. S., he was greeted, at a formal reception by 3,000 Jews, among them Nathan Straus, Henrietta Szold, Schmarya Levin, Morris Rothenberg, David Yellin...