Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said The New York World: "Mr. Coolidge ... in the talk of the street, had his nerve with him." More tranquil, the Republican New York Evening Post remarked: "The place for the newspaper to try to influence public opinion is on its editorial page. It may be its duty to express the hope that the rumor it prints on its front page will prove to be false, but it is equally its duty to print the rumor...
...screaming, "The end of the world has come!" In Hereford, the town clock struck thrice though it was really five o'clock. At Stratford-on-Avon, U. S. tourists clutched their passports and pocketbooks; the "sure and firm set earth" was trembling violently with the roar of an express train. It was Britain's third temblor in a month, the severest in 30 years, part of a series indicating that for the first time in history Britain was in an active earthquake zone. Vesuvius. Home bodies whose relatives were touring Italy grew needlessly uneasy over headlines...
...newspapers and magazines, buy books that will pass the prison censor and are also allowed to write one letter each day, those of us of course, that care to take the advantage of those privileges and are financially able to do so. I am sending to you herewith, an express office money-order for the $5 due on my subscription and hope that you will not take my failure to comply with your wishes sooner in the light that I was just one of a lot more d- fools that caused you inconvenience or annoyance. E. R. BARTLETT...
...desire particularly to express in the most emphatic and precise terms that under no circumstances whatever is any German, whether a relation of mine or otherwise, to have any voice or right in or over the guardianship or bringing up of my children...
...FOOL-F. Tennyson Jesse- Knopf ($2.50). Any lad that likes to lie at a railroad curve for the sensation of being obliterated, almost, by a rushing express train, is likely to come to no common end.* That is Tom Fould, or Tom Fool as they call him in the years that he courts high moments of danger sailing the world's seas. His first woman, and one or two afterwards, taken not lightly, give him flashes of the same gathered intensity that comes in moments of imminent destruction. For a time, convalescing from a wreck, he finds "rounded contentment...