Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woman's Christian Temperance Union held its 50th annual convention in Chicago, was overjoyed to receive a greeting from the President in response to a message of approval sent him. "The President asks me to express sincere thanks. ..." wired E. T. Clark, Mr. Coolidge's personal secretary...
...Coolidge telegraphed to George B. Christian Jr., Secretary to the late President Harding, asking him to express the former's sorrow at Mrs. Harding's death to the members of her family...
...John Roach Straton's attack upon American magazines is little short of ridiculous. To term such a magazine as the Atlantic Monthly a purveyor of deadly poisons because it sees fit to open its columns to one writer who wishes to justify divorce, and to another who desires to express his conception of God, is to play the dogmatist. It is obviously the purpose of a magazine to stimulate a discussion of ideas in an attempt to sift out the truth...
Significance. Jewish publications, of whatever character, inevitably express the Hebrew faith. The editors of The Commonweal, while notably receptive, at once identified themselves as watchful guardians of the Petrine Rock. When their magazine appeared, many reflected that, though tacitly represented by scores of unofficial publications, Protestantism has no lay organs definitely and forthrightly wedded to its cause. Split two ways, into various denominations and into various strata of orthodoxy, it is doubtful that Protestantism could have such organs. Moreover, not being greatly given to organization, it is doubtful that Protestantism will ever seek to have them...
...Denmark and America are on the verge of broken diplomatic relations as a result would be the highest kind of folly. There were "dissensions", yes, But, taken out of the false glare of newspaper talk, they were perfectly comprehensible, and at times even funny. They were merely the physical expression of personal and national character: and, understood as such, they cease to become the terrible things the scare-mongers would like to have us believe. Take, for example, the case of the Italian fencers. Their match with France was tied when the Italian and French champions finally crossed blades...