Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reticent Man. The First's commander, Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, is a formal, frugal, unglamorous Scot who has been somewhat eclipsed for the outside public by the brilliant commanders above and around him in Tunisia, and for his own troops by his brilliant juniors within the First Army. He speaks fluent French, and his French subordinates like his Scottish mentality...
Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce, making her first formal talk to her Connecticut constituents since election, charged that Washington was still fighting a "lazy war," plumped for a near-confisca-tory war tax on "the well-to-do & the rich," said she was for drafting "all capital, profits & plants" if labor was to be drafted, and ticked off the war manpower commission as a "small but apparently indissolvable group of waltzing mice & pretzel benders...
...read "almost 1,500 books," including Prescott's history of the U.S. and the Bible. Most impressive work, he found, was called Immersion v. Sprinkling, "because it was passionately controversial." From being a devout Calvinist, young Harold rebelliously turned away from "formal religion," accepted the Sermon on the Mount as "good enough...
John Harvard Mall in City Square, Charlestown, will be presented to the City of Boston by the President and Fellows of Harvard College in formal ceremonies at the Mall next Sunday at 2 o'clock...
...formal review over, the 240 Mil Sci men will fall out into four demonstration teams, which will exhibit their training in the firing battery, gunnery, fire direction, and foot drill. With Cadet Col. James H. Reynolds, Jr. in charge, the demonstration will last until 4:45 o'clock. All men will then reassemble for retreat ceremonies...