Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take this opportunity to express to you my appreciation of your magazine? A minister hasn't very much time for so-called secular reading, but after reading TIME I feel that I am well posted on the current affairs of the day. I look forward eagerly to its arrival, and never let it go until I have read it from cover to cover. In any intellectual group I am always proud to give TIME as my authority...
...been decided that Joe Losey, director of "Little Old Boy," which played in New York last year, will direct the show. The officers of the club have narrowed the field of possible productions to three and the play given will either be "Sunshine House," by H. C. Voller, "Heavenly Express," by Albert Bein, or "Peripherie," a Max Reinhardt production. A definite decision about the play will be made in a few days...
...knowledge that Labor had never yet won a city election, the Conservatives dozed through the Councilmen's campaign. They stirred uneasily last week when a Labor crowd in Camberwell Baths howled Conservative Newspaper Publisher Lord Beaverbrook off the platform and sang "The Red Flag." Next morning his Daily Express screamed: SHALL THE HOOLIGANS GOVERN LONDON? Meanwhile the leader of the London Labor Party, Herbert Morrison, was fighting the campaign of his life. When the votes were counted, Labor had swept whole boroughs from under the Tories, defeated such Tory front men as the Earl of Haddo...
...Ohio's Senator Simeon Fess, who represented National Air Transport at an air operators' conference; William Hudson Philp, son of onetime Fourth Assistant Postmaster General John Philp who did the same; Julius Kahn, son of Representative Florence P. Kahn of California who represented Western Air Express in Washington...
...rules ("the exceptions ... are few and unimportant")The apparently whimsical spelling of English, a grief to struggling foreigners, has not been tampered with. Ogden admits this difficulty but calls it minor, hopes to see spelling reform make plain English even plainer. No pidgin English, Basic can be used to express ideas, as Ogden proves by writing its 100-page system in Basic English...