Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formal morning dress, the Diet of Japan will gather this week for an Extraordinary Session-perhaps the most momentous since the Extraordinary Diet that met in the month before Pearl Harbor. A heavy brocade curtain will rise before a balcony in the dignified House of Peers. There, in lonely, myopic state, will perch the Emperor Hirohito. The honorable members, and the uniformed guards who see that representatives do not fall asleep, will bow their heads docilely as the Son of Heaven, flanked by Princes of the Blood, declares their meeting open...
...York City's Herald Tribune last week. The "great emotion" soared in French hearts when General Charles de Gaulle put a name to the future: the Fourth Republic, successor to the unhappy Third (1870-1940). It might be months before the nations would accord the new Republic formal recognition (at week's end the U.S. and Britain had still not recognized formally the new French Committee of National Liberation as trustee for France), but already Frenchmen at home and abroad looked up. Said De Gaulle: "Fight with me and we will establish French sovereignty; fight with...
...York agent for a Philadelphia cotton-goods firm, studied for a year and a half under Anatomist George Bridgman and the late Thomas Fogarty at Manhattan's Art Students' League. He worked a few months more at the National Academy of Design. That is all the formal art training he ever had-all, for his special abilities and purposes, that he ever needed. At 17 he was doing illustrations for St. Nicholas, Boys' Life, Youth's Companion. In 1916, just as he reached his majority, he also reached the cover of the Satevepost,* which has since...
...keynote of Joseph Guttoveggio's career has been a plodding thoroughness. When, as a child, he became catcher of the 17th Street baseball team, he got McGraw's book on baseball from the library and boned up for weeks on curves and knuckle balls. His formal education ended with his second year in high school, but he began haunting the New York Public Library. A book on hypnotism made him a successful practitioner on friends and neighbors. He ploughed through such subjects as cryptography, graphology, occultism, oriental philosophy, esthetics, acoustics. A book on dietetics converted him temporarily into...
...team of Lev Allen and Daddy Weems was beaming last week. T.I.S.'s program was well over the hump. Starting next month, they can expand the course to 17 weeks as the need for new officers slackens (TIME, April 26). This week T.I.S. will have its first formal inspection by Lieut. General Lesley McNair, head of the Army Ground Forces. Among the sights: 239 first classmen from West Point, 90 officers of the newly activated 42nd ("Rainbow") Division taking refresher courses...