Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sponsored by exotic novelist M. Maurice de Waleffe were cool culottes de juillet (Breeches of July) much resembling the "shorts" already worn by smart U. S. males-as nether underwear. With the culottes is worn a waspish waisted jacket. Formal evening attire of quite similar cut was presented at Deauville in sheer green or violet silk, topped with a silk hat of matching hue, and completed by a nuvelle chemise-d'habille (new dress shirt)-soft,-collarless, and deeply "V" cut to display virile hirsute chests...
...that the Zuñi Indians used to build. No lawn and scant shrubbery relieve the austere approach. Within, all is spacious and gracious, the solidly furnished home of the family of a man of large affairs. Here lives Nominee Hoover. Hither he was returning last week to await formal notification of his high honor...
...Savidge. As the Extraordinary Tribunal retired to thrash out a verdict on the conduct of the police and to draft a formal report to Parliament, one quaint bit of testimony was recalled as deeply and philosophically significant...
...reason that sustained support of modern art is so difficult to maintain, is that even our most indubitably gifted moderns have so little passionate conviction about the things that they want to paint, or the necessity for painting them. "The vitality of any art, even in its most formal and purely aesthetic aspect, depends on some theme which is a living factor in the existence of a whole people and which colors their emotions and motivates their lives. . . . "To say that pictures need not, or should not, tell a story is to state the problem falsely. In all great epochs...
Explanations: 1) Major Putnam was born in England, though his parents were U. S. citizens. A formal declaration at the age of 21 of his desire to be a U. S. citizen was all that was needed, but Major...