Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote of 46 to 43, to accept the conference report in which the export debenture plan was stricken from the bill. President Hoover was openly flouted by those who either honestly believed in this plan or felt that the House, heretofore gagged, should be given a chance to express itself. Speaker Longworth and other leaders had refused to give the House a vote on the debenture plan for two reasons: 1) it would force midwestern Congressmen to go on record on a politically troublesome issue; 2) it would be a backdown by the House on its claim that the Senate...
...State Senate adopted, 26 votes to 2, her resolution which said: "We bow our heads in shame and regret and express in the strongest and most emphatic terms our condemnation and humiliation of said conduct ... on the part of the mistress of the White House and her associates...
...ball was held. Edward of Wales was not present. There was no announcement. A Buckingham palace chamberlain issued the customary denials, the customary com plaint that these recurring rumors are "particularly vexatious to court circles" Blonde Princess Ingrid, nevertheless, had a delightful time at her ball. By her express command the band played nothing but waltzes all evening...
...will be well if those in charge of future elections have seen these smiles and realize that they express a somewhat tolerant amusement which is far more dangerous to an organization's prestige than any more intense feeling ever can be. Popular recognition of the value of tutorial work has become far too general among Harvard men for them to bother with any very vigorous attack upon a society which still places its emphasis upon a form of effort which has always been the delight of a certain serious sort of adolescent mind...
...perhaps you would like to waken now and get up." Once awake, Old Mrs. Greene feels too old, too weary, to arrange her own little walks, rests, games of "patience." She lets her companion arrange them. Dinner is the sacred hour; not then, not even afterward, can the companion express a personal opinion. Yet. the companion once breaks that rule. Although only 38, she says to Old Mrs. Greene, "I should like to die in the autumn." Startled, Mrs. Greene ponders the disparity of their ages, impulsively gives her a ruby-and-diamond brooch...