Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tammen died in 1924. It follows: "Ever since early this morning when the wires of the press associations flashed the news, 'Harry Tammen is dead,' into the office, I have been pondering what I could say that would palliate the grief that I know is yours and express my own feeling of personal loss...
...following extract is taken from the diary of Sir James Owen of Exeter, England, publisher of the Devonshire Express and Echo, who with Lady Owen toured the United States and Canada last year. The extract is reprinted from the columns of the Boston Evening Transcript...
...Mark Tietjens, brother to Christopher, dies of disease. Were it not doubly impertinent to offer advice to an author whose works are so obviously satisfying to himself, some brash but discerning critic might paraphrase one of Author Ford's titles, saying to him: "The purpose of writing is to express, not to conceal; let us have no more charades...
Inasmuch as the Twentieth Century abounds in paradoxes, it is not the vogue to express either amazement or bewilderment over the sometimes irreconcilable phenomena of modernity. Still credulity and belief have their limitations and even the imagination talks when asked to solve the enigmatical causa causans of the enforcement of compulsory golf at Annapolis. It is not unassuming to picture natty mid-shipment pursuing the elusive golf pellet over the briny billows of the deep. No ardent enthusiast of the green has falled, at some moment or other, to meditate upon the possibility of a rolling sea suddenly solidified...
During the week, Governor Smith had occasion, to express himself on one more topic. Some Ku Klux Klansmen in Queens, N. Y., asked him to punish their municipal authorities for breaking up a Klan parade. Governor Smith answered that he could not act but that he hoped justice would be done. He also said: "I regard the purposes of your organization with abhorrence...