Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whirl, proved herself equal to the rigors of teas, dinners and receptions. At one crowded affair an ample and obviously uncomfortable dowager approached to inquire, "My, aren't you warm?" The First Lady replied: "Most certainly not. I find it very comfortable." Last week she held her first formal White House party (for wives of the diplomatic set), planned a tea for newspaperwomen this week. She also found time to reduce the staff of 33 White House servants by approximately one-third. (Servants' salaries are paid by the Government, but the President must feed them...
Harvard men who have been clamoring for their college's return to formal sports had their answer Saturday, and at came from some of the loudest of the clamorers, the athletes themselves. While Deerfield Academy was trouncing the home team on Soldiers Field to the one of 26 to 2, the Crimson was putting on an exhibition of poor playing and even poorer sportsmanship...
Furthermore, the President told his visitors that he would welcome a meeting with General Charles de Gaulle. (This week Foreign Minister Bidault announced that such a meeting would take place "soon.") In sum, these moves represented the most ardent U.S. overture made to France since the liberation. Said a formal White House statement: "A strong France represents a gain to the world...
Confiscation & Formality. There were also nice differences between the manner in which Göring and Hitler acquired some of their pieces. Whereas Hitler was in a position to confiscate something "in the name of the German state"-as, for example, the Rothschild collection in Paris -Goring preferred more formal methods, with at least a fiction of legality. Göring did get some fine things from the Rothschild collection, such as a portrait of the Infanta Margarita Teresa by Velasquez, but Hofer insisted that everything taken from the Rothschild collection (which he said was "collected") was later appraised...
Little has appeared in these columns about Harvard's Civil Affairs Training officers, formal name for the uniformed brass hats who joke in Japanese and swear in Japanese and even try to think in Japanese...