Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American people are tired of this condition, and my candidacy will give the voters of Pennsylvania an opportunity to express their views on the question...
Once a year the "fastest ship in the world" is taken off the transatlantic express service. In order that U. S. babbitts may dash once around the Mediterranean and back to work, the Mauretania makes that circuit every winter at a speed considerably above that of Balkan express trains...
...Harriman & Co., Inc., of the American Ship & Commerce Corp., of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Corp., of the United American Lines, Inc., of the Merchant Shipbuilding Corp., and director of the Guaranty Trust Co., of New York, of the Wells Fargo Co., of the American Railway Express Co., of the National Surety Co.) If he does so, he will be truly a transportation amphibian...
...narrator as "You," drive the reader quite frantic. One is forced to admit that one is impressed by the personal use of you, but when one finds page after page of "You, Laura Regan, the bride, His." "God. You. Beloved" one becomes depressed as Miss Hurst herself would express it, by "The tedium. The tedium. The tedium...
...slogan, "Say it with flowers!" first was used. Data were not published as to the exact hour when the precious words first unfolded, nor the posture, state of mind, diet and dress of their author at the moment of burgeoning. But the floral directors were at last able to express their belated thanksgiving. They voted last week that a gold medal be struck off, incrusted by a floral design in diamonds, emeralds and rubies, and presented to Florist J. S. O'Keefe of Boston, who had incontestably shown that he and no other had produced the phrase...