Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German Garden, known to pre-War German society as the Countess von Arnim, before her marriage Miss Mary Annette Beauchamp: "Bigelow is full of generous admiration. He gilds one with his warm rays. I am persuaded that his anecdote about Wells was meant as praise. . . . Americans sometimes express their admiration . . . differently from us, that's all. . . . "On the other hand, / would very much like to be described as having the appearance of a lucky stockbroker. To me the terrible adjective 'dainty' is usually applied, as if I were a bit of lace or a frill. Perhaps...
...Columbia University football player who made himself nationally famous by powdering his nose in the Columbia library some months ago must express his laurels in haste to the University of California. Those inconsiderate, Westerners, according to yesterday's New York Times, have gone him one better. Where he only powdered, they bring their shaving-tackle to the lecture-room, lather, rub it in or not according to their preferences in shaving-cream, and shave with as much success as lack of a mirror will allow...
Have great religious teachers come in the past-Roman world to intervene in its Hebraic orthodoxy and Roman materialism ? If so, would He work through the consciousness and personality of a Kellogg, a Coolidge, a Lloyd George or a Baldwin, or through some gentle, strong person fit to express the power of the " strong Son of God, immortal love" ? If the latter, why not a person born of the gentle, intelligent, clean, ascetic Brahmin stock? For if He came as a Protestant, would Catholics accept? If as a Catholic, would Christian Scientists? When last time He came, the Christ worked...
...suburban station near Guadalajara, a crowd of evil-looking men swarmed into third-class carriages attached to the Mexico City Express...
...conversation the deaf use three systems of signs: 1) natural signs to express ideas; 2) methodical signs for words; and 3) manual signs each of which represents a letter of the alphabet...