Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playing host to Cornell, M.I.T., and Princeton, the Crimson's first postwar crew opens its formal season today at 5:30 o'clock on the familiar stretches of the Charles River. The four-way regatta will take place over a 1 3/4 mile course from the M.I.T., boathouse to the West Boston bridge...
While this meet will be the only intercollegiate race of the year for the Blue crew, inactive since 1942, it will climax a formal schedule of four races for Tom Bolles' charges, who are now priming for their Saturday meeting with Cornell, Princeton, and M.I.T. on the Charles. The race will start at the Cottage Farm Bridge, near the Tech boathouse, and finish on the approaches to the West Boston Bridge off the Community Yacht Club float...
Even Poetess Naidu found little warmth in Jinnah: "Somewhat formal and fastidious and a little aloof and imperious of manner. . . . Tall and stately, but thin to the point of emaciation, languid and luxurious of habit, Jinnah's attenuated form is the deceptive sheath of a spirit of exceptional vitality and endurance...
...cornucopia of anecdotes. Starchy Admiral King got indigestion every time Commander McGovern entered the room, his Byronic profile rising proudly above a pair of dandruff-laden shoulders, his uniform scarred with gravy. (In civilian life, McGovern modeled an otter fur hat by a Chinese Lily Dache at a formal dinner.) Once, smoking on Constitution Avenue, McGovern saw King coming. He stuffed the red-hot pipe into his pocket, threw King a salute-and scrambled down the street, his pants catching fire. Says he: "I lived in constant fear of courtmartial...
...Primitive art," explained Chagall, "already had a technical perfection toward which the present generation is striving, now playing tricks of sleight of hand, now falling into stylization. I compare .this formal baggage to the Pope of Rome sumptuously vested beside Christ naked, or to the lavishly decorated church beside prayer in the open fields...