Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japanese Government proposed to send the battleship Kiso or the Isuzu around the world to express gratitude to foreign nations for their aid to Japan during and after the earthquake. Admiral Uriu, an Annapolis graduate, is likely to command the ship...
...Prince had planned a great musical festival for next Spring, one that was to become an annual event. When the earthquake was rocking Tokyo, the Prince was on an express train thither-bound. But it was 19 days before he arrived to find the Imperial Theatre in ruins and his own concert hall partly demolished. Nevertheless, the Prince does not despair of his festival and is at present endeavoring to engage American artists...
...Acting before a Boston audience is like running up against a blank wall. The audience sit on their hands. They have cakes of ice in their pockets. They're awful! There aren't words enough in an actor's vocabulary to express his feelings about a Boston audience. At the start of a run in Boston, he says 'My God!' and at the end he says "Thank God." Then he leaves town and tries to forget about it as soon as possible...
...Therefore I wish to express my highest appreciation of the work and of the methods of administration employed by the European Student Relief. It has done much to insure educated leaders for the rebuilding of Europe...
Presumably under considerable pressure from the agricultural sections, Secretary Wallace of the Department of Agriculture demanded that Swift & Co., the Wilson Packing Co. and the Cudahy Packing Co. give federal auditors full access to their accounts, records, documents. The demand was made for the express purpose of determining how far the companies are buyers and sellers of live stock and products manufactured from live stock, how far they are engaged in interstate commerce, and to audit figures previously submitted to the Government to determine if they are correct...