Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pony Express. Paramount has been advertising for some time this picture as a "western epic" and the sequel to The Covered Wagon. James Cruze who directed that unforgettable history also held the megaphone on The Pony Express. He did not talk so convincingly to his actors; the story was wrong; something was the matter. For several reels the picture gallops along at a good gait. Excitement and conviction. Then it suddenly tires out and ends half asleep. It is a story of the West and Southwest just before the Civil War and deals with the juggling of state despatches. Ernest...
...clearly I am enabled to express myself I do not know; but of one thing I am quite convinced: That I should have suffered a far greater handicap in life than I have in the way of expression of thought, clarity of statement, had I not studied the classic languages. I realize that nobody is now paying any attention to them and that a man may be a Master of Arts with a mere smattering of Latin and no Greek whatever, but I am not convinced that the loss of these two languages is contributing to accurate English...
Finally Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, accompanied by their friend, Senator William M. Butler, were swallowed up in a railroad train and carried off in the first section of the Bar Harbor Express. Next day they were let down in Washington...
...nothing please Comrade Gulliver? Ah, yes! confessed "an unwilling admiration for express elevators. 'First Stop The Seventeenth Floor' a gigantic upward leap...
...What passes for bolshevism and communism in Mexico is this: There are there, as here, people who sympathize with the Russian philosophies. There, as here, they express themselves through papers and meetings. The papers are poor things that are printed first in one shop, then in another. When they get up here they are taken seriously. Fewer than 100 people will get together and proclaim themselves the Communist Party of Mexico...