Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night last week the Hamburg-Berlin Express de luxe thundered out over its carefully ballasted roadbed at 100 kilometers an hour. A Berliner, who endeavored to appear nonchalant, picked up the telephone instrument which dangled from a hook in his Schlafwagen (sleeping car) compartment, and bellowed the phone number of his apartment on Unter den Linden through the roar of the train. His wife answered, intelligibly, if necessarily at the top of her lungs; and the details of next morning's breakfast were gutturally decided upon. The Berliner hung up, paid the Eisenbahn Gesellschaft (railroad company) 5 gold marks...
...commanding officer of the Shenandoah did not at any time express opposition to or any reluctance in undertaking the flight beginning Sept. 2 on the ground of possible adverse weather conditions...
...playwright then turned to discuss the stage, "I think writing plays is more fascinating than writing novels," he declared, "because you can see how it 'takes', whereas you cannot watch the faces of those who may read your novels. Also, it is interesting to see whether others can express by their actions what you have down on paper. Most of the time they cannot...
...Englishmen seem to have forgotten all about backward America in the fury of their religious wars. Ten famous English writers, including Arnold Bennett and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were inveigled into writing their religious thinking, into the headlines of the London Daily Express under the title "What I Believe...
Last night a taxi turned over beside the Lampoon Building. People living near the corner express the belief that not less than one accident a day is the average. On Sunday as many as four or five automobile mishaps are common, it is stated...