Word: expressible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...observer who has watched with increasing frustration the various emergency meetings, the extended world jaunt of Herbert Hoover, and the utter failure to act, this comes as a welcome appeal. For the member of the University it is more than an appeal, it is a challenge to express in deed his concepts of idealism...
Famous vacation trains, like the Cornish Riviera Express (nonstop London to Plymouth) and the Golden Arrow (London to Dover and Paris), were running again. Ex-R.A.F. pilots swarmed into the air-taxi business and got as much as ?50 ($200) for a flight to France (prewar British Airways price: a little over ?4). Britain's passport office was issuing a thousand passports a day, and hundreds of jealous wives wrote in, asking that their husbands' applications be refused; the wives suspected that the bounders merely wanted to visit wartime girl friends on the Continent. The Government...
...students appeared, Barzun noted with interest the elimination of tutorial in several university departments, Barzun declared that tutorial work, or its equivalent, is a necessity for college men of Junior and Senior standing. He offered as "the equivalent alternative" a system of conferences and seminars where students could freely express themselves orally and in writing...
London's balletomanes were bursting with pride over a local girl who had made good. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express boasted that the 26-year-old prima ballerina of the Sadler's Wells Ballet was "greater than Pavlova." Slim-limbed Margot Fonteyn was the hottest thing in English ballet since London-born Alice Marks became the great Alicia Markova...
...Express' enthusiasm, like its politics, was excessively nationalistic. Englishmen like to call London's 15-year-old Sadler's Wells company the National Ballet, and take pride in the fact that it owes little to the Russians. Margot Fonteyn is, in a complicated way, English. She was brought up in Shanghai, the daughter of an English tobaccoman named Hookham and a Mexican mother from whom she inherited an exotically high-cheeked face. She joined Sadler's Wells at 14. Two years later Fonteyn's arabesques appealed to the patriotism of the Morning Post: "Here...