Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other. We are both free peoples and strong peoples, and ought to be united, but we have reached liberty by different routes; the French by principles and proclamations, the English by the gradual extension of the rights of the individual-which is, after a fashion, the way their people express in public life their love of comfort...
DING DONG BELL-Walter De La Mare-Knopf ($1.75). Two people-a young lady with a silk sunshade, an old gentleman with an umbrella-meet on the platform of a country railroad junction. They have hours to wait. An express goes by; in the hush that follows its passing the old gentleman remarks: "Fifty years ago you could have cradled an infant on that tombstone yonder-Zadakiel Puncheon's- and it would have slept the sun down. Now, poor creature, his ashes are jarred and desecrated a thousand times a day-by mechanisms like that." To scan more closely...
...last seen drifting helplessly at sea (TIME, Aug. 11). Wade, still grieving at the loss of his ship and at being out of the glorious adventure so near the goal, burst into uncontrollable tears. With difficulty his comrades quieted him, cheered !him further with the news that by express command of the Chief of Air Service himself, a new Douglas World Cruiser was on its way to Pictou, Nova Scotia. Here Wade will rejoin the flight and sail triumphantly home with his comrades...
George II of Greece: "Pointing to the fact that the Greek 'Royalists have joined forces with the Venizelists, The London Daily Express, plebs' paper, stated its belief that a counterrevolution will ensconce me upon the throne whence I was deposed in March, represented me as saying: 'I am convinced that it will be only a matter of time until I am recalled...
...Right Hon. F. W. Jowett, First Commissioner of Works, answered that permission to hang the picture was given by his Conservative predecessor, Sir John Baird. He assured the House that its present position could not be regarded as permanent and that members would be given an opportunity to express their approval or 'disapproval before a final decision was reached. Considerable commotion was provoked by these statements-some M.P.'s championing Lady Astor, others openly against her. Finally, the discussion was ended by Premier MacDonald, who said: " Obviously, this is a matter which ought to be dealt with...