Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas dinner ceremonies. Through all of this, the Perkins wit made life more bearable, for the complicated problems of man in a complex House were always met by a notice in the Perkins style explaining perhaps why a striped silk shirt did not pass for a formal jacket at High Table...
...Four had narrowed a number of gaps, but their actual agreements were only three: 1) the preamble to the Italian treaty, 2) a revised armistice giving Italy a bit more control over her own affairs-thus merely enraging Italians, who wanted a full-fledged peace treaty, 3) formal shuffling of a few Balkan boundaries informally settled over a year...
Interviews will last approximately ten minutes, and the Committee plans to select the delegate either Wednesday night or very soon thereafter. Although no formal "briefing" for the individual chosen is planned, shipboard discussions and a New York meeting for the American group before the conference will trace the background and main purpose of the convention...
...bulk of the team will have to be made up of men from last year's squad. Returnees, who played on the 1942 team, the last year of formal ball, are few and far between. Cleo O'Donnell, elected captain at the end of that season, will be back. So will Len Cummings, an end, and possibly guard Sid Smith. Willo and Jack Fisher will be around too. But that's just about all, with the possible exception of Wally Flynn and Pete Garland...
...case was settled when Rubinstein paid over about $2,250,000 to the stockholders. But it caused U.S. immigration authorities to pounce: they found that Serge had adopted the new name for use, as he explained, "on formal occasions," that he had changed his Russian citizenship for Portuguese. A passport-fraud charge could not be made to stick. But his draft board hopes to be more successful...