Word: formality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Japanese regard Katayama as a not-too-strong, neutral character-"neither poison nor medicine"-and doubt that his Cabinet will do much. The new coalition has already made its unhappy mark on protocol-happy Imperial Household officials. At this week's formal investiture, several Ministers showed up without dress coats...
Laird Ball '04, President of the Harvard Alumni Association, is to preside at the Alumni Exercises, and some of the honorary degree recipients may add a few words to the formal addresses of President Conant and Governor Bradford. In case of rain, the Exercises will retreat to Sanders Theatre, but the Spreads will still be held beneath the sheltering awnings in the Yard...
...years women on foot had shuttled their daily loads of flour, oil, sugar and soap across the bridge. But Brazil and Argentina are South America's most powerful rivals, and many reasons of state had been found to delay the formal inaugural. Finally, it could be put off no longer. Said a bored Brazilian as Dutra winged south for the meeting: "I suppose somebody...
...formal occasions, when many guests are invited to Chiang's household, Chen almost never appears. Yet with probably no other person, not excepting Madame Chiang, does the Generalissimo spend more of his waking hours. In Chungking days, the two would cross the Yangtze together to the presidential home high above the south bank. Watchers would see two silent figures in the Gimo's power launch -Chiang in unadorned uniform, Chen in mandarin gown, reading each other's thoughts, rarely uttering a word...
Lunch in Kirkland House will follow the formal exercises, and then the Varsity nine will move onstage when it tackles the visiting Yale squad at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field. A buffet supper in Kirkland, a concert by the Orchestra and Glee Club, and informal dances, in Winthrop and Kirkland Houses will round out the crowded day. Tickets for the supper, concert, and dance will be sold separately, reversing previous procedure...