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Word: formality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prinney spent his wedding night dead drunk and ended up on the edge of the fireplace, where his bride let him sleep it off undisturbed. After the birth of their child and heir, Princess Charlotte, nine months later, the future King of England sent Caroline formal notification that he would require no further wifely duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Queen in Tights | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...even appear, as the dialogue driveled on between drama ("We belong together; I know we do") and comedy ("It's raining cats and dogs; I just stepped in a poodle"). When she finally did appear as a bedridden sage spouting inspirational cliches, she was as stiff and formal as Queen Victoria issuing a proclamation. It all seemed like an expensive piece of sabotage in which 20th Century-Fox was trying to convince viewers to stay away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...Landmarks. In addition to signing the notable Declaration of Washington, the President and Prime Minister also produced a formal communiqué on the key landmarks of the international horizon, a generalized document that sometimes reflected more agreement, and sometimes less, than had actually been attained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Tour of the Horizon | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

Despite publicity that the "continuance of the organization depends on attendance," only seven of 104 enrolled "Students for Eisenhower" showed up at the club's first formal meeting last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 7 of 104 Members Attend Ike Meeting | 2/8/1956 | See Source »

...lobbyist, a guy who can make the quick fix. But those characters are out of date." In to replace him has come a well-trained, accommodating technical expert whose facts-tailored, of course, to fit his own cause-are presented not in a backroom, but at a formal hearing. One of the lobbyist's biggest jobs is to gauge political winds and determine what he can get. Said one lobbyist: "I spend as much time educating my own people on what they can and should get as I do educating people on the Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Influence Peddling Turns Respectable | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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