Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge and Boston citizens and civic groups are preparing formal opposition to a plan that would put apartments, research firms or industrial buildings on a 40-acre platform over part of the Charles River Basin...
Following a formal opening on February 11th, the show will be open free to the public until it closes March 14th...
...Rockefeller considers a business suit adequate for his inauguration, why the black tie for the evening celebrations? Why not formal dress for a formal occasion ? As far as evening junketing is concerned, any man who picks up a $40,000 tab can wear a bikini and be regarded as the best-dressed man in the assemblage...
...Right Rev. Arthur Carl Lichtenberger. 59. sat in a carved oak throne 22 ft. high to hear the formal words of induction pronounced by his predecessor. Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill: "I, Henry Knox, do induct and install you, Right Reverend Father in God, Arthur, into the office of President Bishop, with all its rights, dignities, honors and privileges: in which may our Lord Jesus Christ preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth forevermore. Amen...
...effect it was the formal end of the Hollywood blacklist. For barred writers, the informal end came long ago. At least 15% of current Hollywood films are reportedly written by blacklist members. Says Producer King: "There are more ghosts in Hollywood than in Forest Lawn. Every company in town has used the work of blacklisted people. We're just the first to confirm what everybody knows." Writer Trumbo himself has sold "many screenplays" under nine pseudonyms. Since 1947 Trumbo's income, slashed 90% in the first eight years, has actually risen above his pre-blacklist level...