Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toward the net. He volleys with more power than finesse, serves hard but without either the finality or the waste of energy that characterizes U. S. players like Vines or Shields. Two years ago Perry's word when he missed a shot was "Nuts." He has since learned to express his disappointment more politely but still shakes his racket, bounces a ball hungrily between serves, rolls on his back when he falls down. Such gestures have often been mistaken by critics as an indication of frivolity. Actually they are the inevitable manifestations of a character in which the salient quality...
Eminent Germans and their efforts in the closing days of the plebiscite campaign to express how they feel about "My Leader...
Dollfuss, at the head of the regular army and his private Heimwehr, ruled by decree. But in the last year the Austrians have twice turned to revolution and murder in an effort to express opinions which they were not permitted to express by ballot. Their peaceful opposition outlawed, their active revolt was suppressed by machine guns and the gallows...
...Fosdick, Dr. Miller believes that public prayer is today in a precarious state. Investigating Dr. Fosdick as an able public supplicator. Dr. Miller finds that his prayers are formalized to suit the composite character of a large congregation. In 15 Sunday morning prayers he observes that Dr. Fosdick expresses "all the needs and desires he may be expected to express during the succeeding five years . . . for economic deliverance, devotion to the highest, glad and fresh faith, fruitfulness of the soul, integration of our lives, renewed aspirations, attunement to God, beauty, high thoughts, basic virtues, larger and higher visions, spiritual welfare...
...says, the character would seem incredible and false. What principally puzzles him is why so many critics have called his stories "competent." Says he: "There is evidently something that a number of people do not like in my stories and it is this they try to express when they damn them with the faint praise of competence. I have a notion that it is the definiteness of their form. . . . My prepossessions in the arts are on the side of law and order. I like a story that fits. ... I am not unaware of the disadvantages of this method. It gives...