Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...humbly born President of the U.S., a midwestern Missourian, was top man at Potsdam. Winston Churchill, the descendant of Marlborough, and Joseph Stalin, the Bolshevik dictator, made Harry Truman the chairman of their formal meetings. One evening he gave a state dinner for the other two, and afterwards he sat at a piano and played a minuet in G for them. One German, and one only, was in the room: Ludwig van Beethoven, who hated Prussianism and wrote the music...
...interminably at telephones and in bathtubs. She also likes "slumber parties" (which are talkative rather than slumberous) with wolf-cubs whistling below the windows. She does not care to look old or sophisticated, uses simple cosmetics (but pays elaborate attention to shades of lipstick), and saves her dignity for formal dances. She reads much in magazines, little in newspapers or books. She is hep to new records and takes an occasional turn at baby-sitting for pocket money...
...Stakhanovite amoeba, neat and artificial as a nest of concentric Chinese boxes, this hypersymmetrical rake's progress is as stylized in its performance as in its structure. It is more like a puppet show than a flesh & blood comedy, and its dialogue is in dialect as formal as the colloquy of Mandarins. The puppets often strike tableaux which have charm, irony and even beauty, of a kind. But it is a kind so rigid and remote from simple human warmth that honest laughs come few & far between. It is an unusual, skilful and singularly lifeless little picture...
Unity by Default. But if their formal union was gone, the British and Americans were still united by a common lack of policy: long-range policies were still either undecided or secret. Ordinary soldiers of the occupation armies were beginning to ask: what's going to be done with Germany? Will it be permanently divided into small states? With political activity banned, how can a democratic Germany develop...
General George S. Patton Jr., in Hamilton, Mass., represented the spit-&-polish school with a formal bow over the hand of a little girl who had presented him with a bouquet...