Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life and character of an outstanding man express the spirit of the community in which he has moved. Paul Revere Frothingham was the descendent from generations of Harvard men who moulded her fortunes in the days when she was a New England and Boston institution, that is, the days of Emerson. Lowell, and their contemporaries. He was the most brilliant successor of William Ellery Channing, the greatest minister of his time, whose religious doctrines exercised untold influence at Cambridge during the same period. His heritage was the heritage of liberalism...
...writing to express the hope that TIME will continue to use as cover-frontis-pieces those very clever and vigorous portrait sketches by the man whose name I cannot decipher. I have started a scrapbook, containing these drawings and their corresponding articles, and hope to make up a group of such double character-sketches. The latest one, of Dr. Coffin, I think is particularly fine, and it was that one that gave me the idea of making a collection...
When Consul General Robert Piet Kisner climbed aboard the Orient Express at Paris one night last week, bound for his new post in Athens as U. S. Minister to Greece, he was performing an act of far more significance than taking a train ride. It was the first time a consular officer had proceeded to a new post without going to Washington to confer with the Department of State; furthermore, Mr. Kisner's appointment was the first important application of the Rogers Act of 1924, which combined the consular and diplomatic services into a single "Foreign Service...
...favor any Western state to the detriment of any Eastern state. . . ." With Tewfik Rushdi Bey gone, M. Tchitcherin, still less communicative, tarried not in Odessa. Bundled up as usual because of his uncertain health, he hurried with his bustling undersecretaries to catch the regular 6:40 p.m. through express to Moscow. Behind the puffing locomotive M. Tchitcherin's first class wagon-lit rumbled smoothly. Then came a jangling, second class car, a rattlety-bang third class coach and seven careening fast freight vans. Speeding northwestward to Schmerinka, northeastward to Kiew and Kursk, and finally due north to Moscow...
...Immanuel Kant himself walking meticulously under the lindens at Koenigsberg could have been at greater pains than Count Keyserling to express in dry, recondite terms of utterly accurate cognition the following thoughts...