Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that night they got together in an emergency meeting, voted to put into their code such a clause. Next day at the hearing their spokesman announced: "This brings a good deal of happiness. . . . Our industry believes that it would be helpful to the broad movement to put an express provision in the cotton textile code that the employment of minors under 16 years of age be not permitted during the emergency." The sudden...
...vain knife-faced French Minister Georges Bonnet fumed. Waiting for the President, he missed the Golden Arrow De Luxe Express to Paris, missed all the afternoon expresses and finally left London at 11 p. m. to toss all night on the Channel with a cabinet meeting in Paris scheduled as soon as he should arrive...
Moscow seethed. Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs Gregory Sokolnikov protested to the world: "Without waiting for our investigation the Tachikaze illegally penetrated Soviet waters and landed part of a crew which arbitrarily explored the shore. . . . The Soviet Government cannot fail to express utter surprise...
...language does not provide a vocabulary of condemnation adequate to express now our feelings toward the Nineteen Twenties. At the same time, we are seeking new phrases in which to tell the world of our oncoming glory in the Nineteen Thirties. I hope you will not be misled by these enthusiasms and extravagances...
Basing my belief on a limited amount of knowledge of Morgan operations I would express an opinion that if more of our men in high posi tions and institutions had concerned themselves with the preservation of the integrity of a name to the extent that Morgan has the country would be better off. J. Frederick Russell Worcester, Mass...