Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just returned to Washington after two and a half weeks in Britain. Forrestal was the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit wartime Britain since Sumner Welles's ill-fated exploratory peace trip in 1940-for unofficial Ambassadors Willkie and Hopkins, and innumerable minor observers, have had no such formal posts. What the Under Secretary reported was not officially disclosed, but Washington's version of the Forrestal report was specific, and was not met with denials. Some reported points...
...Estonian and Lithuanian vessels which lie idle in U.S. harbors and throw them into the Battle of the Atlantic. In the House the bill stirred up the whole argument over convoys, interventionists called the bill "an act of war," and for the third time the German Government sent a formal protest...
...past the formal Jubilee dance, this year featuring Bobby Byrnes and his orchestra, will highlight a week-end of activities...
...smoothed her dress, perched herself at a big piano, gravely played Beethoven and Schumann, rattled through a Schubert scherzo. She was the youngest. A dozen other dressed-up girls, and one boy, took their turns at the piano. Thus Manhattan's Greenwich House Music School exhibited, in a formal recital, what its piano department is doing for slum children. In the springtime, as their year closes, many of the 50-odd settlement music schools in the U.S. give concerts for friends and potential benefactors...
...Nonetto" for chamber orchestra and chorus which follows is less successful, chiefly because having no formal pattern into which to throw his ideas, and imposing no mental limitations on himself, the composer dilates and drifts around to such an extent that the thing does not jell. It becomes more a series of stunning effects than a clearly discernible whole. Still, for what they are, the effects, caused by a varied and beautifully recorded percussion and passionate inter-jections from the chorus, are extremely striking. Also effective is "The Ox-Cart Driver's Song" for soprano and piano, sung by Elsic...