Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aside from the beauty of the rug itself, much of its interest lies in its history. Woven about 1550, probably at Ispahan, it was used in the palace of one of the Safidian monarchs and was later presented to Peter the Great of Russia. In 1698, Peter, wishing to express his appreciation of the hospitality of Leopold I, Emperor of Austria, to whom he had paid a visit presented it to his host, and for many years it hung on the walls of the great staircase of the Imperial Palace at Schorbrunn. It was recently sold in London...
...mail service to Nashvillians. The emanations of Dr. O'Callaghan addressed to "Mr. Nashville Businessman" ran on exuberantly, telling of Cyrus the Great of Persia who had " a snappy mail service," quoting Gibbon on Rome, explaining the function of the Swiss yodelers, glorifying the Pony Express and the air mail. Last September, Dr. O'Callaghan held a pageant to exhibit his mighty works-with "an original, Historical and Educational Cavalcade of Floats, Men and Costumes, with Lessons on Correct Method of Addressing Mail Matter." Dr. O'Callaghan has been rewarded. He reports that the Nashville mail service...
...that it seems that a rich man can not be convicted in courts established by the Harding-Coolidge administration. If a man has money, he has the passport to his freedom. . . . "I thank God that there is a place in the Republic where the representatives of the people can express their opinion and make known their convictions without being awed or intimidated by the fear that the court could punish them for what it might call contempt of court, and this place is one of them. . . . "Mr. President, there are millions of his [Mr. Fall's] countrymen who would...
...spinster aunts, querulous mother, prolific wife and lusty offspring, he begins talking wildly of "seeing through" the eternal moil of creatures struggling to exist, acquire, mate and reproduce. He "sees through" to the essential, motile miracle of living?or something like that; neither he nor Miss Gale can quite express it. His wife sends for an alienist. He rushes off to Alia Locksley, the waiting one, hoping she will understand his prodigious discovery. But she is only sex-hungry. She sends for the same alienist. So Bernard Mead returns to Pauquette, grimly reflecting that he has a few years left...
There is no limit to membership in this group. All members of the University are invited to join and express their opinions on the best way to organize such a move. The main reason for holding this meeting before the vacation is to give the persons attending an opportunity to think the matter over, 30 that when work is resumed on January 3 some definite plans can be formulated...