Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after President Roosevelt sent his budget message to Congress, citizens thumbed through the letter "S" in dictionaries looking for words to express emotion. Republicans magnified their feelings with "shocking." Democrats minimized theirs with "startling." Some liked "stupendous," others preferred "shudder," but most overworked word in the U. S. vocabulary was "staggering." The President planned to have the U. S. spend $31,179 a minute-every minute night and day-till June 30. He planned to have the U. S. borrow $6,000,000,000 before June 30-an amount slightly larger than the total amount of U. S. currency...
...What a lesson President Roosevelt, the hero of a nation, teaches the rulers of this country!" cried Canadian-born Baron Beaverbrook's London Daily Express. "President Roosevelt goes to war against the slump with warlike daring and wartime finance. His budget is in the Armageddon of 1918 class; it reminds you of Russia's Five-Year Plan...
Engineer William Gilbert son of the Royal Scot express exhibited at Chicago's Century of Progress (TIME, May 22): the Order of the British" Empire...
Because of cold and snow the 9:45 express train from pine clad Sinaia into Bucharest was delayed one night last week. A fair-sized crowd was on the station platform, for nearby is the extravagantly turreted palace that is King Carol's country home. Impatiently awaiting the train were Premier Ion Gheorghe Duca, hurrying back to the Capital after a conference with the King, former Mayor Costinescu of Bucharest and Secretary General of the Legislative Council Michel Vlashide. Frugally all three bought third class tickets. They did not notice a group of university students at the other...
Died. Anatoly Vasilevich Lunacharsky, 58, Soviet Ambassador to Spain, dramatist, and longtime (1917-29) People's Commissar for Education; of arteriosclerosis; in Menton, France. Communist 100-percenters viewed him as a "liberal" and an esthete, were horrified when he held up the Moscow-Leningrad express for his actress wife, finally forced his resignation...