Word: formality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wire services clucked and twittered like village matrons at a sewing circle. Was she or wasn't she? "Spokesmen" and "usually well-informed sources" said she was. Then, from Monaco's palace press service, came the crusher: a "formal and categorical denial" that Princess Grace was expecting a second child. Cause of the tizzy: Prince Rainier, continuing the battle royal with reporters that began before his wedding, censored some deceptively tumescent shots of Grace taken last month aboard the U.S.S. Forrestal...
...years Francis and his order of Frati Minori, or Little Brothers (they did not at first aspire to the priesthood), had become a mass movement dedicated to holy poverty. When Francis got around to writing down a formal rule for his order, he prescribed "vile vestments" and, in preaching, "brief discourses, because the Lord while on earth talked briefly...
...alternate Fridays two square dances will be held in the Union from 8:30 to 12, again with a 35 cent admission. The final dance of the Friday evening series will be semi-formal with George Graham and his orchestra, August 9 in the Union at 8:30. The admission to this dance will be $1.00 per couple...
...other Clevelanders contributed fiddle strings, mouthpieces and clarinet reeds to the Polish musicians. Cleveland's First Trumpeter Louis Davidson gave one of his $300 trumpets to Trumpeter Francisek Stockfiscz of the Katowice Philharmonia (the Cleveland Orchestra management promised to buy Davidson another). "Thank you," said Stockfiscz at a formal banquet. "You have changed my life...
...house from his fields and forcing him to detour for miles to get from one side of his land to the other. Last week at Encino, Calif., a superhighway bulldozed its way past the front door of Hollywood Actor Edward Everett Horton, burying his tennis court, swimming pool and formal garden. Dozens of California swimming pools, their bottoms knocked out to prevent water from collecting, have been buried far beneath the new roads, a possible puzzle for future archaeologists. A classic case of inconvenience occurred when a new road cut off a farmer's privy from his house, forcing...