Word: formality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Crommelin (who is eligible to become a rear admiral in December) had charged that the Navy was "being nibbled to death in the Pentagon" by "landlocked" strategists. His unruly blast had created only a short stir (TIME, Sept. 26). Last week, more than ever determined to get a formal investigation of his charges, John Crommelin took more desperate action...
...flew back to Washington having obviously enjoyed himself, and went on about his business during the rest of the week with the air of a man determined to make the best of a difficult world. He reminded reporters gathered for his weekly press conference that it was his 200th formal meeting with them. He liked press conferences, he said, and though he occasionally got annoyed with their bosses, he thought most of the assembled newsmen were eminently fair...
Fred W. Neal of the Ambassador Taxi Company disclosed that the Ambassador, Harvard, and Brattle companies, along with many independents, have submitted formal complaints to the city about the situation...
...Palestine, 5) Indonesia and 6) the report of the Security Council. The committee had just disposed of item No. i by passing the Greek issue on to a conciliation commission when it had to make room on its agenda for a new problem. The Chinese had placed a formal charge before the Assembly that Moscow had violated the 1945 Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance, by such acts as robbing Manchuria of most of its industry and giving "moral and material support to the Communist insurrection in China." The Russians, who denounced the Chinese charge as "pitiful babble," wanted...
...painting. Around Paris he caught glimpses of the work of les fauves, the "wild beasts"-Matisse, Rouault, Dufy, Derain -whose daring compositions and brilliant colors were setting French art on its ear. His own academic interiors and portraits looked drab and uninspired by comparison. In 1904, renouncing his old formal ways, he flirted with impressionism and became the first U.S. artist to follow up the experiments of les fauves...