Word: formals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prince Max, although ardently pro-German, keeps his fingers crossed, has a passport which makes him a subject of the Principality of Liechtenstein. Last week he mobilized his villagers, his gamekeepers, his servants and his toddling infants, all of whom gave the Nazi salute as Lord Runciman arrived in formal black jacket, wing collar and black bat tie. Herr Henlein turned up in brown tweed coat, grey flannel slacks and white shoes. Present was the German agent known as "Princess Steffi," who generally operates in London. There she has been hostess to Herr Henlein and to Adolf Hitler...
...time, Lord Baldwin has been expected to make a tour of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, to see about spending the $37,500 annual income from this Imperial Trust. But the Earl has been in no hurry. On the day he ceased to be Prime Minister, he discarded formal morning suit, heavy gold watch chain, and stiff wing collar of Statesmanship, and retired into natty brown and grey suits with colored shirts and soft collars to match. Last week a local horticultural show was staged on the grounds of the Baldwin estate, and neighbors gathered, wondering if the Earl...
Konrad Henlein, the Sudeten German Führer, sent only subordinates to confer with the Viscount. The consideration with which he treated them was considered spectacular. Lord Runciman's program included 20-minute formal calls on President Eduard Benes and Premier Milan Hodza; two lengthy conferences with henchmen of Henlein, the second lasting until 2 a. m.; next day lunch with...
...early stages of a science, the classification of its subject matter is a necessary job. Dr. La Piere divides collective behavior into several categories: institutional, conventional, regimental and formal (marriages, funerals, military organization and conduct, etc.); congenial (recreation); audience behavior; exchange (economic) and politic (political); nomothetic (behavior in regard to law); and such "escape" types of group behavior as panic, revelous, fanatical and rebellious.† By "revelous" behavior. Dr. La Piere means all kinds of revelry which serve to discharge tensions accumulated in day-to-day living-harvest festivals of peasants, New Year's celebrations in cities, orgiastic dances...
Junior, who had played only four previous rounds of golf with his father and had never had a formal lesson, was elated. "Only five worse than dad," he chuckled...