Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week was the Lord Privy Seal, spruce young Captain Anthony Eden, who was put to bed with "heart strain" after his round of diplomatic fencing bouts with Hitler, Stalin and Pilsudski (TIME, April 1 et seq.). Chirped a glib, anonymous political correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express: "They refer to 'heart strain'. . . . The actual trouble, I understand, is thrombosis" [clogging of an artery...
...Club," he said, "will seek to develop informal parliamentary debate on current political issues. We hope to have not only only Liberal and Radical groups represented in the Club, but also Conservative opinion so that all the various interests in the University may express their views. The model for such a forum may be found in the Yale Political Union. The Club will continue its policy of having outside speakers and forming study groups...
Little did she know that one day the poet Robert Browning would express her thoughts; but he did, and tomorrow at 10 the Vagabond will journey to the New Lecture Hall to hear Prefessor Munn discuss more of the poet's philosophy...
Seven years ago Wagons-Lits bought Thomas Cook & Son with the result that on the Orient Express one can now escape the necessity of paying for things in seven kinds of money. Buying ticket and meal coupons or books in Paris at Wagons-Lits-Cook's opposite the Madeleine, you hop a taxi to the smoky Gare du Nord, step aboard the Simplon Orient at 5:53 p. m.. wake up next morning just as you are diving under the Alps through the famed Simplon Tunnel and breakfast as you swish by the Italian lakes and Stresa...
Meanwhile convicted spies Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gordon Switz of East Orange, N. J. were "exempted from punishment" by the French Government in return for their voluble peaching on the other spies. Promptly Mr. Switz started writing for Hearst's Universal Service and the London Daily Express...