Word: formality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearby box sat chic, grey-haired Madame St. Laurent. As the ballots were counted, eager supporters kept rushing up to whisper to her: "Très, Très, Très bon." Each time she answered: "Attendez." They did not have to wait long for the formal announcement: St. Laurent on the first ballot with 848 votes...
After conferring with Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Dulles, Dewey issued a formal statement that carried the weight of G.O.P. policy. Said he: "The present duty of Americans is not to be divided by past lapses, but to unite to surmount present dangers ... In Berlin, we must not surrender our rights under duress...
Here Father Reinhold interpolated: "I am sure American Catholics, with their deep sense of the sacredness of law, will find it hard to stomach the next sentence: 'How could I obstruct their genuine desire for Christ the Lord by mere formal objections from Canon Law? We sang our old appropriate hymns. I consecrated the piece of hard and coarse Russian bread and the wine . . . Over 300 Catholics and 80 Evangelical Christians came to the Sacred Banquet. The speaker of the Lutherans thanked me, his voiced drowned in tears of joy. He was a student for the ministry from Eisenach...
...Named by her mother, who had been reading Uncle Tom's Cabin. In the U.S. later, W.C.T.U. President Frances Elizabeth Willard persuaded Eva Booth to assume the fuller, more formal name Evangeline...
...choruses in the work which first won him fame. When it was over, Education Minister Gyula Oretetay presented the composer with a gold-leafed baton, and bull-necked Communist War Minister Peter Veres, a self-educated peasant who makes a point of never wearing a necktie on formal occasions, gave Kodály a wreath of fresh Hungarian wheat...