Word: formality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris this week, the Foreign Ministers of the Western Union nations met for the first time since last summer to implement plans for Western Europe's common defense, in case war broke out. They would also discuss the possibility of a formal military alliance with the U.S. Most Western Europeans no longer regarded such concerns as hysterical...
...earliest and best paintings on show was Edward Savage's formal portrait of Commodore Abraham Whipple, the hard-bitten New Englander who won the first sea battle of the Revolution, off Jamestown, R.I. and later snatched eight ships by stealth from a British convoy of 150. Savage's Whipple, magnificently bedecked for the occasion in a scarlet, gold-braided waistcoat and cocked hat, looked duck-footed, paunchy, and tough as a saltwater Punch...
Faustus will be considered a masterpiece by some, a bore by many. A good deal of it reads like Mann's heaviest formal essays. To those who look for it, however, the book offers a masterful explanation of those sides of the German character that welcomed Hitler. Most readers will see a symbolic parallel between Adrian's bargain with the Devil and Germany's similar sellout...
...piece do resistance of the Princeton social season, the affair is formal and combines the music of Meyer Davis with an undisclosed "elaborate and sensational" merit. Supper will be served...
...formal evening wear, bright blue is preferred. Black and navy blue develop fuzzy edges...