Word: formality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afterwards Paul Robeson rumbled to newsmen: "This is the sixty-fifth formal concert of my present season and, thank goodness, my last. I'm going to devote the next two years to lecturing, speaking and singing as I please...
Ambassador Douglas, preoccupied with Britain's plight, is sounding out influential Britons on their views and getting their estimates of terms-financial and political-on which another loan might be asked. These talks are in no sense negotiations, or even formal preliminaries to negotiations; their significance is simply that "another loan" is inevitably one of the Ambassador's pressing concerns...
...formal dedication of his portrait two years ago, Charles Francis Adams highlighted one Adams House dinner. Last year's farewell ceremonies were devoted to Archie McConnell, retiring Gold Coast superintendent...
...found another million dollars worth of the loot, which they think might have been buried in the U.S. or already sold through underworld fences. And because the jewels already recovered had been smuggled into the U.S. without declaration, they would be shipped back to the U.S. for formal clearance by the Customs Bureau...
...Maharaja sent military bands to serenade the Americans nightly. They played Nepalese hill tunes and a creditable version of the Star-Spangled Banner. There were numerous dinners, receptions, reviews, movie showings and sightseeing tours. Formal afternoon clothes, as well as white ties and tails, were frequently worn. But the highlights of the visit were two official durbars. For the first durbar Nepal's King, Maharajadhiraja Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jung Bahadur Shah Bahadur Shum Shere Jung Deva,* who rarely appears in public, officially presided in a long baroque hall hung with pictures of his predecessors. Satterthwaite presented a letter from...