Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most unfashionable painters feel and express disdain for fashionable portrait painters. This disdain is in many cases justified because many fashionable portrait painters are ridiculous fakes. Disdain is not usually felt for Sir William Orpen with his careful, photographic half-tones, sometimes so emphasized that his faces are overmodeled. Among the most prolific of painters, he held, in 1918, a vast exhibition of War-paintings, of which he gave a large number to the British nation. He has written books as well as painted pictures, but less ably...
...mouth. For the first time since June, a single day's trading passed the 4,000,000-share mark. The ticker once again fell behind, a full 25 minutes. Many stocks were pushed to new high levels for all time. Among them: U. S. Steel, Adams Express, International Nickel, American Express, Allis-Chalmers, Fleischmann, Victor Talking Machine, Loose-Wiles Biscuit, Commercial Investment Trust. Soaring, too, were Montgomery Ward, Chile Copper, Commonwealth Power, Anaconda, Coty Inc., Eaton Axle & Spring...
...headline was made possible by R. B. Gentles, grain broker, as he started on the first westbound trip of the Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. Others who traveled on the first eastbound T. A. T. express were a businesswoman who wanted to catch a boat to France, a physician who was in a hurry to see his sick daughter, the Mayor of Fargo, N. Dak., several railroad executives...
Near Baltimore, lived a lazy, black rascal called Matt Fisher. Last week, when ennui made him yawn and moan, he decided to put an unused tie across the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad to derail the Philadelphia-Norfolk express train. Whistling for his dog, Matt Fisher strolled towards the railroad...
...across the tracks near a curve and then went into the bushes to wait. A few minutes before the express arrived, a freight train came puffing up to the obstruction and its engineer got out of his cab and pushed the tie down into the bushes. Matt Fisher was about to put it back where he wanted it when some trainmen who had heard his dog barking, found him sitting in the shrubbery. They asked him what he was doing and Matt Fisher, sucking on a cigaret, told them...