Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mystification of the audience. Mary Aster, as the heroine torn between two loyalties, manages to look dyspeptically emotional, and Ricardo Cortez, the suave and charming cad, smiles toothily but shrewdly at his rather capable supporting cast. The photography is frequently excellent, and portrays the swift passage of the Istanbul Express across Europe with verve and dash...
...nominate William Randolph Hearst as the 1934 "Man of the Year." for the express reason that he has done more for the public in a literary way through his newspapers and magazines than any man in the world has ever done or ever will...
...George Lansbury, Laborite Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, had a perfect opening to attack his Majesty's Government as perjured hypocrites, but instead he endorsed their wisdom, obvious apparently to all Great Britons except that Canadian-born Press Tycoon Baron Beaverbrook. Unheeded, his Daily Express roared, "This is what comes of meddling in a quarrel that is not ours! ... By sending in British troops we lay ourselves open to the eventual criticism of both France and Germany. . . . We are like the fool who interferes in another family's dispute...
...been assassinated (TIME, Dec. 10), Soviet firing squads last week mowed down 66 Russians, one a woman, who were not accused of having anything to do with Assassin Leonid Nicolaev or his crime. According to dispatches passed by the Soviet censor, "they died to express the Government's determination that Nicolaev's act should not be the model for others...
There are three lectures a week in this half-course given in the second half of the year. Under Professor Prall last year, logic received a conscientious and interesting treatment. But while he knew thoroughly what he wanted to express, he ran into the difficulty which most philosophers meet, an inability to give a coherent picture to the class. For most men however, he succeeded in laying the foundation. This year Professor Dennes of the University of California, who is reported to be a fine teacher will conduct the course, and he may correct this one difficulty...