Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President William T. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State was another White House visitor-of-the-week (see p. 12). His presence was no less formal in nature than the visit last month of Canada's chief exec- utive, Governor General Willingdon, who was dined at the White House. But some expert on etiquette decided that a White House luncheon for President Cosgrave would do just as well, and luncheon it was. The Cabinet, some outstanding Senators and Representatives, the military chiefs of staff and many a minor official with...
...promise, one rooster-boost. Wearing a new grey suit and looking not unlike Henry Ford, Mayor Lodge offered his right hand to all-comers. Policemen gripped so hard that Mayor Lodge, wincing but glad, had to give others his left hand. When subordinate city officials were brought forward for formal introduction, Mayor Lodge called them by their first names. He had known them well during his 17 years on the city council (nine years as president). Oldest residents came. Bankers, waiters, children and firemen came. The Mayor's niece came-Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh. Detroit congratulated itself as well...
Molnar. The sleepy celebrity, the one with a monocle on the right side of his plump face, the self indulgent one who sat silent at formal dinners but roistered about Manhattan with his friends?that one was Ferenc Molnar...
Fortunately for the U. S., the established procedure of the Pan-American conference is to deal only with subjects actually on the agenda and to deal with these in secret committee rooms. When a committee reaches agreement, its decision is passed upon by a formal, full dress, decorous meeting of the conference as a whole. Under this system Latin fireworks have been quenched at all the five previous sittings of the Pan-American conference...
...themselves without help, or, it is added, hindrance from their elders. The great purpose of a college education being to train men to train themselves-a purpose which President Lowell has repeatedly stressed this method is looked upon as an aid to that end. Incidentally, it will reduce the formal teaching period to about the length of that in the English universities, and will give some relief to teachers upon whom increasing burdens have been laid by the more intensive following of the work of the individual students and by the obligation to carry on researches in their own field...