Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saturday night the field had narrowed to five honey blondes, one chestnut blonde, one corn-tassel blonde, two brunettes, one redhead. They stalked back & forth across the stage in formal gowns, danced, sang and displayed in somber black bathing suits what used to win Miss America contests. Judging took so long that the master of ceremonies ran out of gags, took to reading comic strips aloud. Said Sergeant Silvagni's wife, a bathing-beauty expert: "I thought they'd be a bunch of dogs this time. But they're prettier than I expected. They...
...Australia Wand found U.S. influence stronger than British. He dressed like a U.S. Episcopal bishop except on formal occasions, when he donned gaiters and apron. Australians liked him for his warm friendliness and for his excellent preaching. His Oxford accent is quite intelligible. He has no prim ecclesiastical mannerisms. His sermons are pithy applications of the Christian faith to workaday life. Each Sunday evening thousands of Australians listened to him on the radio; other thousands read his weekly articles in the Brisbane Courier-Mail...
...boost last week from the ranks of its professional enemies-the Essentialists. Widely known are the aims of the Progressives: informal learning through active experience; the development of initiative, responsibility and the mastery of basic subjects by encouraging pupils as individuals, with teachers acting more as guides than as formal instructors. Less familiar is Essentialism, although hosts of U.S. citizens lean toward the Essentialists. This educational wing would give pupils systematic training in traditional subjects; discipline is stressed and informal learning strictly subordinated...
...issues too predictably from the literal image. But toward the end, sound predominates. At a Myra Hess daytime performance of Mozart's Concerto in G Major, in London's war-stripped National Gallery, quietly the Queen appears, among the bemused faces of her subjects. As the magnificently formal music falls from the air, the camera disengages itself from the concert room, steers soberly, at second-floor height, through disformed, tragic London...
Churchill had barely arrived in Memorial Hall when the formal academic procession, led by Dr. Reginald Fitz '06. University Marshal, began to file into Sanders Theatre...