Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enclosed clipping from the Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express would indicate that our local "Balloon Man" was hit shortly after I read about one you described...
Sitting up in bed with his morning paper, President Roosevelt found a nasty story glaring him in the face. At a crossing just outside Washington a Baltimore & Ohio express train had whipped into a school bus, scattered the corpses of 14 youngsters over 200 yards of right-of-way (see p. 32). That news provided him with a jumping-off spot for a new task: the job of "personally" spending $4,880,000,000 on work relief. Same day he announced that $200,000,000 would be spent in eliminating grade crossings on main-line tracks...
...Home Office's great criminal pathologist. Thrice in a twelvemonth Sir Bernard has failed to solve spectacular murder cases: The Brighton Trunk Crime No. 1; the Brighton Trunk Crime No. 2; and the Case of the Waterloo Legs-limbs which, as Lord Beaverbrook's blatant Daily Express never tires of repeating, were found under the seat of a Waterloo railway train wrapped in a copy of the Daily Express...
...pictures as the horses approached the jump, the Britons set off a "flare" bomb. The smoky explosion failed of its purpose and, instead, caused Golden Miller's $10,000,000 balk which occurred directly in front of the U. S. photographers' cameras. Their sensational pictures, which, the Express misleadingly published without comment, failed to show the cause of the mishap...
...years teachers and pupils fussed over the. Germanic script. While Miss Connor was in school, a devastating reaction set in. Standards collapsed right & left. Youngsters were allowed to run riot with pen and paper, express their personalities in rough squiggles, gross curlicues, boorish scrawls. "Horace Greeley's writing was responsible for this horrid idea," explained Miss Connor. "Just because he was a great man with a dreadful handwriting, it followed that all great men must have dreadful hands...