Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opening events in the reasonable facsimile of a pre-war football weekend, Saturday afternoon's Stadium features provided some 8,000 fans with double-demonstrations of smooth marching as Harvard's undergraduate naval units passed in formal review before their commanding officer, Captain C. H. J. Keppler, USN, and later all members of the informal Varsity squad helped carry the pigskin through, around, and over the Bates College eleven for a 43 to 6 score...
Battling a tricky cross-wind and choppy waters, three Harvard crews bowed to experienced M.I.T. and Cornell eights Saturday afternoon on the Henley Course in the first formal triangular regatta since the war started. Both M.I.T. and Cornell had formal spring racing seasons, and Cornell, the added advantage of frequent practice in rough water. "We just met better crews, that's all," remarked Coach Bert Haines after the contest...
There was little panoply in the six days at Quebec. The principals, and the military staffs, sat through several formal dinners. But mostly Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill worked in their comfortable rooms in the Citadel, surrounded with maps, barging in on each other at all times of day & night. Almost the only informal diversion came when Eleanor Roosevelt showed Fala's tricks to the Earl of Athlone...
Soldier & Gentleman. General Lee is passionately, deeply devoted to propriety. He is one of the most formal high U.S. officers in Europe. When an officer enters his office, General Lee expects the halt, the clicked heels and the salute-held until he returns it. Then he wants the officer to report in the third person: "Colonel Smith of X Regiment reporting to the Commanding General." This formal procedure accomplished correctly, he usually thaws cordially. At staff meetings his aide calls for attention when the General approaches. The staff rise, stand like ramrods until Lee walks to his seat...
Stuart was ready. Although always formal in his dealings with his employes (he "misters" even his oldest associates), Stuart had built an organization notable for its retailing strength throughout...