Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week near Camden, S. C. a farmer's truck with nine occupants reached a railroad crossing simultaneously with a Seaboard Air Line express. Five were killed instantly; three died later in a hospital...
...notable women in Manhattan's Success Set are Mrs. Florence Nightingale Graham Lewis and Mrs. Clara Fargo Thomas. Mrs. Lewis, daughter of a Canadian truckman, now makes nearly a million dollars a year as Elizabeth Arden, cosmetics. Mrs. Thomas, socialite scion of the "Pony Express" Fargos, took up painting after her marriage to a Manhattan realtor. The two women are friends. Last week, between them, they had produced one of the oddest combinations of Culture, Art and Advertising ever seen...
...pieces in translation to the screen, for, although its people sit around and talk a lot, they at least talk with wit. One funny situation occurs when Reed, not recognizing Marshall as his rival in love, begs him, as a playmaker, to devise a dramatic way for him to express his passion for Miss Sidney, and then proceeds to win her by completely disregarding the scene which Marshall has concocted for him. Another comes with Miss Sidney's discovery that a young husband who gets her up at 7 o'clock and makes her spend her waking hours...
Last week the Army & Navy flatly demanded that the Home Ministry, which had already rejected a previous doctrine that the Emperor is "an organ of the State" (TIME, April 15 et ante), should not only recognize His Majesty's ineffable superiority but proceed to express it in a Japanese idiom so elaborate and metaphysical that U. S. correspondents could only translate it "He's the top!" With the Cabinet floundering among Japanese terms so high flown that many of them are rarely heard and but partially understood by an average subject of Emperor Hirohito, His Majesty seemed certain...
Front Page Woman (Warner). Ellen Garfield (Bette Davis), crack reporter of the Star, scoops her fiance Curt Devlin (George Brent), crack reporter of the Express, on the murder of a theatrical producer. Thereafter, the two engage in a good-humored but energetic rivalry. Curt Devlin first gets an advantage by identifying the mystery woman in the case from the perfume on the dead man's coat. Then Ellen Garfield catches up by finding the woman's whereabouts by means of a laundry mark. Finally their efforts to outwit each other lead to a sequence in which, before...