Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointee to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and a former Senate colleague. In a century-old Episcopal church at Berryville, Va., the President stood as best man as Widower Clark and British-born Actress Violet Heming were married. Best Man Truman, the only participant not in formal rig, seemed to be the calmest person in the church. He delivered the ring at the right moment, stood through the ceremony, then stepped back into a pew with Mrs. Truman and daughter Mary Margaret, both in street dress. The President did not kiss the 50-year-old, misty-eyed bride...
...proposed immediate, formal negotiations for international control, significantly added that preliminary international talk was already going...
Between classes Stiles lunches at a campus house where the girls, to keep in practice, speak nothing but Spanish. Said his classmates: ''Meredith simply does something for our campus." Said Meredith after his first class: "I felt like a guy who had showed up for a formal dance in pajamas...
...Henley-as were the stories of the Polish emigrant, Joseph Conrad, J. M. Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson, sections of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, the early lyrics of William Butler Yeats-and even the formal Henry James's What Maisie Knew...
With Hercules and his shipmates, Graves becomes an ancient Greek, moving among demigods and goddesses, myths and monsters with an easy familiarity and a wealth of erudite detail; both sometimes seem too much of a good thing. Atomic-age readers, ill-attuned to the leisurely, formal talk of Myth-Age Greeks, may find themselves skipping some of the longer speeches...