Word: expression
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Stocky, bullet-headed Valentine Edward Charles Browne, Viscount Castlerosse, has been a naval officer and a Captain in the Irish Guards with a distinguished War record. He is now director of three great London papers (Evening Standard, Daily Express, Sunday Express) and a part-time gossip columnist who has learned to overcome the British public's innate awe of a title by writing with elaborate earthiness. Fortnight ago His Lordship turned his attention to the menace of aerial bombardment during the next...
...Hell!" Lord Castlerosse opened his article in the London Daily Express, "I ought to know ... I have been bombed and bombed and bombed, not like the fellows who were bombed in England during...
...accident or design, Lawyer Berthon, marking his points slowly with outstretched forefinger, suddenly found it in the mouth of one of the babies and cried "ouch!" In London this made the headline-of-the-week in Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express: BABY BITES LAWYER AT FRENCH SPY-GANG TRIAL. In Paris tender newshawks reported gushingly upon the infant and how it had just cut four milk teeth...
...steel-splintering crash, almost beneath his window, brought Rev. Charles R. O'Hara bounding from his bed. By the time he reached the window, the express, Washington-bound from St. Louis, had ground past with the rear half of the Williamsport school bus still clinging to the engine cowcatcher. Father O'Hara and another priest, his house guest, hurried into the rain. On the front lawn a girl lay unconscious. Two students were impaled on the cowcatcher, others strewn for 200 yards along the track. Bent on saving what Catholic souls might be among them, the two priests...
...Post. After one edition the Post hastily killed its own announcement. Reason : Editor Patterson had quietly removed the disputed features, had substituted Brick Bradford, Mandrake the Magician, Rose O'Neill's Kewpies and an animal feature by Frank Buck, rushed to her from Manhattan by air express...