Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student is permitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatever...
...story of vicarious travel in the Far East, 26-year-old Oxonian Fleming first takes us along the outside rim of Red China, along the Trans-Siberian Express, from Moscow to Manchukuo. Fleming is immediately disarming as he announces that this is "a superficial account of an unsensational journey". His Anglo-Saxon honesty compels him to add "I dare say I could have made my half-baked conclusions on the major issue of the Far East sound convincing. But it is one thing to bore your readers and another to mislead them". Such frankness is, indeed, unusual...
...accent, Anna May Wrong paid an Oxford tutor ?200 to teach her his. Her vogue in London made her a featured player when she returned to the U. S. in 1930. Since then she has acted in a Broadway play, performed in Daughter of the Dragon, and Shanghai Express, sung in a London night club, made three British pictures, toured the British Isles in a song revue. Now in Hollywood, her next picture will be Limehouse Nights...
...Christian Fichthorne Reisner of Broadway Temple: "I love Mayor LaGuardia as I have loved few public officials. . . . But I hate like hell this damnable lottery system, and I'll fight it to the end. . . . The 2,000,000 Protestants in this city don't know how to express themselves, but they will before we get through with this matter...
...newshawks: "First thing I'm going to do is ride in a streetcar, because I've never been in one. Then I'm going to ride in the subway. Then I want to ride in an automobile. . . . Then I'm going to ride in an express elevator...