Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the formal declaration framed by the Republican National Committee, the G.O.P. and the Democratic Party agree, for the first time, on a similar foreign resolution--a resolution not to ignore the rest of the world when the war is over. Both Parties in their own time and in their own way have accepted the same general formula for post-war America, the Democrats clearly realizing twenty-five years ago that America would be unable to remain divorced from the rest of the world for long. Today the Republicans, at least in the name of their Party, have realized...
...Japan Grew was instrumental in smoothing the many difficulties that arose between Washington and Tokio, and helped prevent the rupture of relations until 1941. A polished figure of the formal and dignified type, he was accustomed to turning his one deat ear to the threats of the Japanese...
Part of the blame lies in the production's slow-footed pace, heavy-handed direction, weak acting. But part of the trouble is the play itself. The dialogue, more like subdued rhetoric than human talk, often seems stilted and formal when spoken aloud. The play lacks sustained action and commits the dramatic crime of having almost everything exciting take place offstage. Finally, though the townspeople's heroic resolution is made clear, their flesh-&-blood sufferings...
Standard refused to cancel its formal contract with Condor until the State Department threatened to invoke its black list. But Berle hinted that the company may have wanted the blacklist threat as a defense against a possible breach-of-contract suit. President Parish hailed this interpretation as plain truth...
...orator, he prefers to read his speeches, which are, like himself, dry and sharp. He is married to a German-Chilean, Marta Ide Perera of the artistic Ide family, has a quiet, formal home life. He disapproved his three sons' music lessons lest culture should sissify them. For himself, he has preferred the wild horsemanship of el huaso, the Chilean cowboy...