Word: formality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unorthodox Approach. The second night Warren appeared in Salt Lake City for the first formal speech of his campaign. It was here that he might have been expected to throw off his folksy, nonpartisan role for a slashing attack on the Democratic administration. Instead, Candidate Warren unmistakably showed his intention of campaigning in his own unorthodox way, in the same reasoned, almost nonpartisan approach which he had used in his successful California campaigns for attorney general and governor. The 1,700 Republican workers, who only half filled the South High School auditorium, listened in bewildered silence...
...True, the unity and purpose of the free (as opposed to the slave) nations had the extra-legal aspect of a vigilance committee; but there had been other times when public morality expressed through vigilantes had been the necessary forerunner of the rule of formal...
...before the convention was over, the Reds showed at least one sign of growing weakness. Though they rammed through resolutions opposing the election of either Harry Truman or Tom Dewey, they stopped short of a formal pledge to Henry Wallace. Explained President Albert Fitzgerald frankly: "No presidential candidate we could endorse here today could have any other effect than to split the organization wide open...
...most Protestants (and many Roman Catholics), the Mass is a formal, mysterious ritual which typifies a formal, mysterious church. Last week Monsignor Ronald A. Knox, famed British scholar and detective-story writer, published a cheerful, witty, informal book called The Mass in Slow Motion (Sheed & Ward; $2.50). Designed to explain the mysterious Latin mumble-jumble of the Mass, the book combines reverence with readability...
...confused with her mother as she was to assume her mother's birthday. In fact, she began her reign with an act of independence. Wilhelmina's daughter would have none of the orange marigolds which bloom everywhere in floral tribute to the House of Orange. For her formal inauguration, Queen Juliana ordered Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk banked instead with pink begonias...