Word: formality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sentiments in fluent English. Upon arrival in the U.S. a fortnight ago, he promptly declared himself an ambassador of "peace, friendship and cooperation." Last week he paid courtesy visits to Vice President Nixon and half a dozen State Department officials, stepped out in top hat and tails for the formal White House dinner for diplomats. Everywhere he went, he displayed a seemingly unerasable smile...
Harold Stassen's future as presidential disarmament adviser had been behind him for weeks, but nonetheless he and President Eisenhower went warmly through the formalities of a Washington leave-taking last week. In a phone call to the President's retreat in Thomasville, Ga., Stassen told Ike that at long, long last he had decided to leave the Administration to run for governor of Pennsylvania.* Stassen followed up the call with a formal letter of resignation, received a genuinely warm reply: "In the important posts to which you have been assigned, I have been most appreciative of your...
...landed right back in the box office." Publicity departments "[made] us all creatures of fantasy" so that Theda Bara tried to live up to her studio's statement that "her coming was prophesied on the Nile in the ancient days when Egyptians lived there." Margaret Livingston served a formal tea to her cat every day at 4 ("Ask Paul Whiteman. who later married her"), while Nazimova was the only member of the "nobility of Bedlam" to have "a moon parlor and a lunarium." As for Dagmar herself, she was "The Snake Woman" of Hollywood. "I hissed my way through...
...brothers agreed to wait until Arthur's widow, Louise Grieb Eisenhower, completed funeral plans before deciding what to do. Next morning the President postponed a scheduled press conference and a formal dinner for Chief Justice Earl Warren. But he went ahead with a perfunctory ceremony observing the tenth anniversary of the Smith-Mundt Act permanently establishing the Voice of America. Unintended high point: when South Dakota's irrepressible Senator Karl Mundt produced a ten-year-old picture of General Eisenhower plumping for the bill, burbled, "You haven't changed a bit, Mr. President." Squinting hard...
...junta helped satisfy the rioters by abolishing the Security Police, arresting 196 of its chief agents. The junta promised to try them on charges of torturing or ill-treating prisoners, with special attention to a police inspector-general accused of presiding over electric shock and beating sessions in a formal dinner jacket. Cost of freedom in the week's casualties: 300 killed, more than 1,000 wounded...