Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief guest speakers at the meeting will be Richard C. Floyd '11, president of the Varsity Club, and "Swede" Nelson, who played right half back on the 1919 team which trounced Boston College 17 to 0 in the only formal meeting between the two colleges...
...same time, the Committee warned all those who plan to attend to take note of the fact that the dance is semi-formal and to ask for their dates soon so that the girls will have adequate time to prepare for the dance. According to the current interpretation of semi-formal, the girls will wear evening clothes while the men are expected to appear in dark business suits...
...receiving these applications the Council will mail out topics for the speech. Tradition is being broken in that in place of a formal debate at the tryout, the candidate will make a five-minute speech discussing the assigned topic, pro or con, from the point of view of the first speaker...
Tuxedo. A tailless dinner coat, first worn by a daring young man (Griswold Lorillard) at a formal ball at fashionable Tuxedo Park, N.Y., in the 1880s...
...Formal British political comment and argument goes mostly to the wide-open field of foreign relations. There the British hope above all for permanent cooperation with both the U.S. and the Soviet Union; the Foreign Office's worst nightmare is the prospect of becoming isolated from both nations, or, almost as bad, being forced to make a definite choice between them...