Word: formals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...final denial to the John Reed Society followed an interchange of letters on the subject starting in October. Early in October oral permission for the lecture was granted by Greene, and at that time he asked the Society for a formal application...
Before the House stretched a week's brass-knuckle debate. Until the last chap ter, the Senate's had been a different and duller story. For three stodgy weeks that body had shifted uneasily about in the un accustomed formal garments of full-dress debate. But last week the Senate, almost to a man, happily shucked its tight collar, stripped off the white gloves. The nodding press gallery awoke, and in five days of catch-as-catch-can heckling the Senate finished its task, passed the Pittman Bill after 26 days and 1,000,000 words...
...shells, the largest number of boats Tom Bolles has ever seen racing together, swept down the Charles under clear skies yesterday in a gala crew regatta, the last event in this fall's formal outdoor rowing season...
...Manhattan the President and Board of Directors of Rockefeller Center, Inc. mailed out big 11" x 8½"), formal, engraved invitations requesting "the honour of your presence at a ceremony in the course of which Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. will drive the last rivet [of silver alloy] in the fourteenth and final building of Rockefeller Center on Wednesday afternoon, November first...
...starry event takes place this week in smoky Pittsburgh-the formal dedication and opening to the public of the $1,100,000 Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science. This week Pittsburgh becomes the fifth of that select group of U. S. cities -Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles-whose inhabitants can go stargazing indoors.* Boss of the Buhl Planetarium is deep-voiced James Stokley (pronounced "Stokely"), generally considered the most inventive of planetarium showmen, who last spring left a job at the Pels Planetarium in Philadelphia to take charge in Pittsburgh (TIME, April...