Word: expresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What's needed, concluded the London Daily Express, is a new name for television-"some catchy, friendly word which can be called over the garden fence without sounding silly." Even the inventive U.S. had been unable to think up anything better than video...
...suggestions that poured in from some 2.000 readers sounded like an eyewash or a new breakfast food (Oculo, Focal, Imagec, Visray, Telio, Vix). Others sounded like nothing on earth (Lookies, Peeps, Scan, Vudio, Luksee, Eyeviews). The Daily Express thought that a few revealed "outrageous ingenuity" (e.g., Vizema, Rad-E-Eye, C.-U., Look-Hear, Radi...
Current leaders in the competition are Gazio, Air-Pic, Opalook, I.C. and Kaladio. The top contender-Dekko-was borrowed from cockney slang. In the vernacular, dekko† means look (e.g., "Let's have a dekko at it") True to the leisurely traditions of many British contests, the Daily Express isn't sure just when it will announce the winner-maybe this week; maybe later...
Furious, Lord Beaverbrook had ordered his evening Standard to come to the defense of his morning Express. Eager Beaver-boys combed the files for old tomatoes to throw at Cummings. They could find little or nothing-even after they had called the victim himself for help. Highly amused, A.J. told the News Chronicle to give Beaver's boys anything they wanted. When the Standard finally got its editorial blast together, the unpredictable Beaver objected that it didn't give his old personal friend and political enemy his due as a journalist. The more Lord Beaverbrook thought about...
Airmail. U.S. Post Offices began to take domestic air parcel post (over eight ounces and up to 70 pounds). Private companies will continue to handle air express and large commercial shipments...