Word: formals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paree, which we have enjoyed, and to other restaurants where shows have been as good or not as good. It is no crime to eat and drink for enjoyment. . . ." As for the diocesan finances, Bishop Ablewhite said he could reveal nothing until Bishop Tucker felt ready to release a formal statement which the Michigan bishop had sent him. After Bishop Ablewhite's hasty trip south, Bishop Tucker gave reporters a statement which upheld Bishop Ablewhite's personal honesty, cast some doubt on his judgment...
...patiently reiterated once more that, in his view, with war threatening, the President should be relieved of the necessity of declaring an embargo on "arms, ammunitions and implements of war" at war's outbreak. The need to preserve a neutral's rights under international law was his formal argument for revision, but he restated Franklin Roosevelt's interventionist intentions to the satisfaction of the Isolationists who had blocked them, when he said...
...Straus knew this because for nearly two years he has run United States Housing Authority, with $800,000,000 to lend to local authorities for slum clearance, more millions to grant in outright rent subsidy gifts. On July 4 he celebrated with the formal opening of USHA's first four completed projects: "Rosewood" in Austin, Tex.; "Brentwood Park" in Jacksonville, Fla.; "Lakeview" in Buffalo, N. Y.; "Red Hook" in Brooklyn. He had 41 other projects under way. By year's end he hoped to have 200 going. With his $800,000,000 authority he would have provided...
...inspection of the CCC camp at Fort Hunt, cocktails with Congressmen. But the next day, Death squelched the squeeze play. In deference to his late Secretary of the Navy (see below). President Roosevelt postponed Trujillo's tea to this week. The visit with Secretary Hull became a brief formal call.* The Pan American party was canceled...
Sonja's chief personal diversions are tennis and her cars: a white Mercury cabriolet which she drives expertly at illegal speeds, and a 16-cylinder Cadillac, which Louis drives for more formal occasions. She also likes diamonds, an occasional champagne cocktail, and U. S. slang, which she puts to individual use. Of ice that does not satisfy her, she will casually observe that it is "stinking lousy," or of someone who bores her, "he stinks." A good dancer, she is fond of other good dancers like slinky Cesar Romero, lanky Lee Bowman. There was talk of a Bowman-Henie...