Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Dominican Republic's Ambassador to Brazil stalked into the Foreign Ministry at Rio de Janeiro, delivered a formal protest. Subject: ribald Brazilian gibes (specifically, a ribbing story in O Globo) at an international marriage. The bride: nubile Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold) Trujillo, daughter of the Dominican Republic's Dictator, Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The groom: plump, baldish Brazilian Industrialist Antenor Mayrink Veiga...
...first auction in 23 years of the once fabulously expensive chinchilla; 2) the first formal sale of U.S.-raised chinchilla skins. Mindful of the $20,000 to $100,000 that chinchilla coats once brought, some furriers glibly forecast a fantastic $250 a pelt...
...review will be of the formal Navy variety with the newly reorganized V-12 band supplying the marches. Plans for the review were arranged by Lt. Donald Fraser, USNR, Drill Officer...
Tonight the unit plans to swing into action once more but this time on the dance floor as the formal Regimental Ball takes place in Eliot House under the direction of the Eliot-Kirkland Joint House Committee...
...Marine platoon presented arms, the bugler played "To the Colors" as the U.S. flag fluttered up the staff. From under the rustling coconut palms a solemn group of natives watched the formal institution of U.S. military rule. This was the first segment of the Japanese Empire to be captured by the U.S.-one of the outer atolls of the Marshall Islands...