Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the Post: "As yet, no formal action to initiate a suit for slander has publicly been taken by Mr. Hiss . . . Mr. Hiss himself has created a situation in which he is obliged to put up or shut up ... Mr. Hiss has left himself no alternative. And each day of delay in making it known that he will avail himself of the opportunity Mr. Chambers has accorded him does incalculable damage to his reputation...
...formal, orderly vote was taken on Reimann's motion to abandon the assembly; all voted against him, except his one fellow Communist. Christian Democratic Leader Konrad Adenauer, Cologne's ex-mayor and one of Germany's most respected public figures, took over as chairman. Said he: "A start must be made so that Germany can earn a place among the free nations of the world...
Over there, for instance, was the usually gentle Pablo Picasso, who got so steamed up at a formal dinner that he removed coat and shirt, or, as a lady intellectual said: "My dear, he stripped to his navel." And over there was Mrs. Julian Huxley, wife of UNESCO's director-general, in conversation with Jerzy Borejsza, an organizer of the congress. Intellectual Borejsza was as steamed up as Painter Picasso. Said he to Mrs. Huxley: "If my wife behaved at UNESCO as you have here, I would spank her bottom...
...emitting rebel yells, waving the Confederate flag, and complaining about the North. Nevertheless, with the Democratic National Convention and their own Birmingham convention behind them, they gathered in Houston last week and went through the noisy act all over again. The occasion: Governor J. Strom Thurmond's formal acceptance of the Dixiecrat presidential nomination...
...Rupert Brooke was one of the first that usually came to mind. Headed for the Dardanelles assault in 1915, Brooke got septicemia from a lip infection, drowsed off in a fever on shipboard and was buried on the Aegean island of Skyros. He was 27. His generation, bred in formal beauty and ancient peace, numbered many gallant young men; but by all accounts Brooke had the best looks and the greatest charm. Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, wrote at his death: "Joyous, fearless, versatile, deeply instructed, with classic symmetry of mind and body...