Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sole remaining civilian formal of the winter season will be the dance at Lowell House tomorrow evening. By a vote of Adams House the Gold Coasters' affair of Saturday, January 27, became an informal. Though the Adams event is open to everyone, the dance tomorrow has been restricted to Lowell men and their dates...
Music for the Bellboys' formal will be supplied by Chappie Arnold and his orchestra, while Hal Reeves, new to the halls of the Crimson, has been employed by the Adams House Committee...
...ripple of laughter when Rhode Island's usually glib Senator Theodore Francis Green got his history mixed, gave Colorado's six ballots mistakenly to Roosevelt & Truman instead of to Dewey & Bricker. But with that little mixup over, the scene went on sedately to Wallace's final formal announcement of a fact already known to the entire world. Now at last it was official: Roosevelt & Truman had received 432 electoral votes, Dewey & Bricker...
...Dominion's Office in London never published the commission's formal report. But last week in London the commission's chairman, Labor Peer Lord Ammon, put his own recommendations on record. He rejected as "unacceptable" the solution for Newfoundland's problems most often proposed by outsiders: confederation with Canada...
General McAuliffe did not hesitate. He had been touring the aid stations, had heard the wounded beg him, "Don't give up on account of us, General Mac." He sat at a debris-littered desk, printed his reply with formal military courtesy: "To the German Commander-NUTS!-the American Commander." So there would be no misinterpretation, an officer translated for the blindfolded German envoy: "It means the same as 'Go to Hell...