Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Going to a variety show with the King and Queen (see cut) was fun, but far too formal. Last week, almost on their own, the Princesses went to the theater (Terence Rattigan's bland While the Sun Shines at the Globe). With them was a 25-year-old chaperone, the Honorable Mrs. Vicary Gibbs, good-looking war widow. For once the royal party sat in decent orchestra seats instead of the neck-craning royal box. Squiring Elizabeth was Lieut. Nigel Page of the Blues (Royal Horse Guards), and with Margaret Rose was Lieut. Charles Petherick of the Tins (Life...
...with baggy clothes so "you could conceal your lack of knowledge of anatomy." By the time he was 15 or so, Webster subscribed to a mail-order cartooning course, and was the only student to finish the course - the school folded shortly afterwards. That was the end of his formal training...
Harvard's undergraduates will have their first formal opportunity tonight to hear the proposals of the University Committee on General Education explained, analyzed, and probably debated in a forum at Paine Hall, in the Music Building, at 8:15 o'clock...
...liked President Wilson's new system of intimate teaching and hated formal lec tures. ("To do the same thing twice a week was horrible.") He timed his evening "precepts" so that his students could take in the first show at the movies. Many a lad who foregathered in Mr. Mac's smoke-filled apartment with six or seven fellow advisees stayed on till midnight, listening to the talk about poets and poetry - some times, at the meetings of Mr. Mac's Freneau Club, hearing from the poets them selves: Vachel Lindsay, Robert Frost, Amy Lowell...
Much of his time on sea duty he has spent "picking up the sort of information that seldom gets into the formal reports." Collecting this data has taken him, aside from the hot spots already mentioned, to "headquarters such as Guadalcanal, Port Moresby, Milne Bay, and Brisbane," and he has witnessed the invasions of Morocco and Saipan...