Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bedivere of the Bronx finishes training school with characteristic verve, just in time to help Uncle Sam grapple with a middlewestern crime wave. Chicago becomes a hades of riddled corpses, black Cadillac touring cars, and sub-machine guns. Other federal men, perhaps less gullible than the screen loving public, express their amazement to find that Cagney grew up in New York side-by-side with most of the first ten public enemies, and that he knows where they carry their guns. It is then a comparatively simple matter to get one of Cagney's former sweethearts to squeal...
...Named by Ben Halliday of Pony Express fame, after his Ophir gold mine, which he had named for the legendary Biblical land of Ophir whence King Solomon got some of his gold...
...wash its trembling hands of the Chaco affair and drop the bowling brat on the doorway of Argentine and Chile, the League cast before it the shadow of its inevitable conduct in this new crisis. It is faintly humorous that Baros Pompeo Aloisi should be the one to express on behalf of Europe boisterous applause at the policy of leaving American affairs in the hands of Americans. In a similar mood the League's reluctance to meddle in the private lives of her friends in Asia has already formed a none too bright chapter of world history. That Geneva will...
Please do not consider this to be in any way a consideration of the handling of the Senior Elections. It is only a plea to have Harvard avoid pre-election mud-slinging. The students who vote know for whom they are voting; let them express their opinions in the ballots; don't let us have students rise who are anxious to guide us along the right path in matters about which we all have our own opinions. John P. Scheu...
...important fact Laval did not have, as he stepped on the Express du Nord in Paris: that Dictator Pilsudski was fast dying of cancer (see p. 21). When the train stopped for 20 minutes in Berlin, he expected what he got, scant attention from anybody except the French Ambassador. But he was chilled to the marrow, when the train pulled up on a well-guarded siding in Warsaw, by the strange stiffness of the top-hatted Poles. Foreign Minister Josef Beck explained that Pilsudski had a little hangover of influenza, proceeded to do the honors with a cold and abstracted...