Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime Minister's office, a cool room with blue leather and a blue rug, a couple of etchings and a map, Jack Curtin affects a huge uncluttered desk. A reserved man, shunning formal gatherings, he nevertheless likes to cock one foot on the desk and talk at length. He smokes incessantly-through a bamboo holder-and drinks tea without pause. He has good relations with the press (still sports his Australian Journalists Association emblem on his watch chain) and is a master at handling irate delegations. Recently a party went up from Sydney, determined to have a showdown...
...dance is the beginning of a series of events planned by the committee for the two units. In the near future there will be a smoker, an informal record dancer, and a formal dance. Tentative dates have been set, and plans for all events are well under...
...informal quips were as popular as his formal wit. Of language, he once said: "[Canadians] use English for literature, Scotch for sermons and American for conversation." One of his most quoted sallies: "God takes care of fools, drunks and the United States of America." In Nonsense Novels he created the young man in love who "flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions...
Compared to most novels, Blessed Are the Meek is in fact much like a tapestry set against easel pictures. It is not realistic in its drawing; except in a formal sense it is not dramatic or emotional. It gets its effect as a decorative spectacle of strange times and strange places when men were more brutal and unprincipled than they are today, and at the same time more intimately aware of God. As such, it carries its own peculiar kind of conviction, especially in its engaging central figure, whom Author Kossak draws as gay, fey and disconcertingly sincere...
...have been suggested as tentative dates. Similar to the affairs of previous years, there will be a formal dance either in Memorial Hall or Potter Hall. If permission of the Dean's Office can be secured, a Boston hotel might be selected...