Word: formals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black & tan faces beamed pridefully back. The flat faces belonged to Federal Art Project portraits of men who have served the District of Columbia as Recorders of Deeds since Reconstruction days. The three-dimensional faces belonged to leaders of Washington's largo Negro population who turned out in formal attire to witness the unveiling of the portraits. They had come to pay homage to a little administrative island in the U. S. Government which has remained in charge of colored folk for most of the past 60 years...
...these circumstances neither Mrs. Simpson's having begun to go to select little bridge parties in Cannes last week, nor the Duke of Windsor's convalescence from his abdication jitters in the hands of Austrian doctors seemed exactly news (see p. 31). In a formal statement, which badgered Mrs. Simpson released at Cannes, it was stated that "no rift of any sort" had come between herself and the Duke of Windsor. In the Austrian Castle whose chatelaine is beauteous Baroness Rothschild, the Duke several times each day last week telephoned Mrs. Simpson...
...There was definite agreement," declared Chairman Paine when the conference was over, ''on the need for systematic reduction of hours and increases of pay." But the formal conclusions of the conferees were so nebulous that seasoned Washington correspondents despaired of finding in them real meaning. Contradictions in the Council's recommendations were left to be ironed out by a committee to be appointed by Coordinator Berry, which would also decide whether they should be submitted to Congress in legislative drafts or merely presented to President Roosevelt for his consideration...
...formal pledge by the Government to reconquer from Japan the part of China once ruled by Old Chang the War Lord, and bequeathed by him to Young Chang, namely Manchuria proper or "Manchu...
...whether or not Mrs. Simpson had always been chaperoned when sleeping under the royal roof. In these ghastly circumstances, Britons could only hope that Baldwin the Magnificent (see p. 17) had, with sealed lips all round, already obtained the final divorce of Mrs. Simpson as well as her formal, signed and sealed undertakings to remain...