Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which bind themselves to accept the arbitral jurisdiction of the Court in all legal disputes. Said Mr. MacDonald: "I am in a position to announce that my Government has decided to sign the optional clause. [Prolonged cheers from statesmen of the minor nations, most of which have signed.] The form of our declaration is now being prepared." Later Prime Minister Aristide Briand said that France, which has adhered with reservations to the Optional Clause, would follow Britain's lead and re-adhere without reservations of any kind...
...become one of the Court Powers under an elaborate reservation the substantial meaning of which is: Whenever the World Court is asked to opine on any question, then let the U. S. State Department be previously informed; let every effort be made to frame the question in a form acceptable to the U. S. State Department; and if this prove im- possible then let there be no hard feelings when the U. S. "naturally" withdraws from adherence to the Court...
...dancer was Agnes Boone, onetime performer with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn's Denishawn Dancers. The rest were dancing masters and mistresses from all over the country who form the American Society of Teachers of Dancing. For 51 years members of the Society have convened annually, usually in Manhattan, to sit in judgment on the dance, to review old dances, see and invent new ones...
Atmosphere of Love is a novel, two-fold in form. In the first part Philippe Marcenat writes to his new wife Isabelle describing his great but jealous love for his previous wife, Odile, telling how she was untrue and shot herself when abandoned. In the second part Isabelle writes how Philippe "hung on. me, as one hangs a cloak on a peg, a soul much more beautiful and worthwhile than mine really was''; also how he died of pneumonia. Throughout Philippe becomes more and more transparent, leading to the conclusion: "If one truly loves, it is not really necessary...
Stalwart, brawny men there are today who, if they could remember scenes from their suckling days, would recall not the soft fullness of a mother's breast but a chunky tin can emitting the satisfying gurgle of U. S. condensed milk. And many a man, sensitive to form and color, would recall as a prime symbol of his infancy a fine full-blown pink blossom-the trademark of Carnation Milk...