Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the statute, which was a result of the Jeffries-Johnson fight, is unusually strict, in that it forbids any person to take anything from the mails, or from any express company or carrier, which is forbidden to be transported, and provides for a fine of $1,000 or a year at hard labor...
Died. Wolf, 10, son of Lad and Lady, collies made famous by the stories of Albert Payson Terhune, at Pompton Lakes, N. J. Taking his usual evening stroll, Wolf was near the railroad station when a pariah dog got in front of an onrushing express. Wolf drove him from the tracks, but was himself killed...
Geraldine Farrar: "When the judge signed my decree of divorce from Lou Tellegen, he permitted me to resume my maiden name or to remarry, but forbade Mr. Tellegen to marry again during my lifetime except by express permission of the court...
What pedestrians on the Bowery and Park Avenue, Manhattan, took to be a military parade of 14 armored motor cars, with submachine guns bristling from their portholes, was in reality the Adams Express fleet moving the assets of the Bowery Savings Bank from its old site at the Bowery and Grand Street to its new building opposite the Grand Central Station on Forty-second Street. As the Bank's assets totaled $202,000,000, there was good reason for this elaborate protection...
...appointed Minister to Belgium, and held that post until Christmas day, 1921. (His title was changed to Ambassador in 1919.) When he retired, King Albert called personally to express the thanks of the Belgian people for his services during...