Word: formals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week's end, he headed north to Canada for a few hours on his island hideaway in Lake Ontario. As he departed, he got formal confirmation of his next travel plans: after addressing the U.N. General Assembly in New York this week, he will probably have to make another trip to London for the forthcoming nine-power conference...
...Jackson, Miss, the state legislature assembled in special session last week to circumvent the U.S. Supreme Court ban on segregated public schools. Governor Hugh White's formal call had listed the most important item of business: the long-proposed constitutional amendment to preserve Mississippi's "separate but equal" public-school facilities for 225,000 Negro and 239,000 white children...
...were all related in one way or another, making the trip a family party, Cousin Frederika ordained that everything should be informal. Only 85-year-old Prince George of Greece (whose Bonaparte wife is one of France's leading psychoanalysts) was allowed to bring along a personal servant. Formal dress and court protocol were forbidden, and the seating arrangements for each day's meals were drawn democratically...
...Glass of Water. Last week President Café Filho went to the Chamber of Deputies to take his formal oath of office. As he stepped into the elaborate, gilded presidential elevator, he halted, and his eyes twinkled behind gold spectacles. "Just one moment, please," he said. "I must have a glass of water. I cannot go to Congress for the first time as President and start asking for water right off the bat. They'll think I shall never stop asking for things...
...lovers whose cars are seen in front of too many bars, the males whom men forget and only tailors remember, the girl who sits high above the town in her pet pailletted gown, deep in the depths on the 90th floor. Sometimes, love can be as fiercely direct, almost formal, as an angry letter: "Don't you know, little fool, you never can win? Use your mentality! Wake up to reality!" And occasionally, in a kind of straight, asphalt lyricism, Porter can out-hammer even Hammerstein in the game of simplicity...