Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduate recently went to New York for the express purpose of gathering together as many as possible of the cheapest sort of magazines for sale in the Times Square district. He worked on the theory that the Grub Street products of an age had a distinct place in its literary history. William W. Watt, in his essay on the penny, sixpenny and shilling Gothic stories that persisted long after "Frankenstein" and "The Monk" had passed out of fashion, has proved this unanswerably...
Unlike the existing airlines, which delegate their ground handling to Postal Telegraph or Railway Express Agency, Air Express Corp. will perform its own pick-up and delivery, thus insure full, permanent control of its business sources...
...Express Corp.'s transcontinental rate is $1.75 for the first pound, $1 per lb. additional. That closely approximates the air rates of Railway Express Agency since they were slashed 15% to 30% last fortnight...
...transport were really a poker game, Player Philbin would need a substantial stack of blue chips to back his express ace. They have been supplied by "strong financial interests." Three of the backers were learned last week: Chandler Hovey, socialite, yachtsman, senior partner in Kidder, Peabody & Co. (Wall Street investment house); Arthur S. Jackson, of Jackson Bros., Boesel & Co. (Chicago brokers) ; and Frank Phillips, petroleum tycoon whose gas & oil will fill the tanks of Air Express Corp.'s ships. First aide to President Philbin is his vice president in charge of traffic. James G. Woolley, a plump, profane hurricane...
While managing editor of London's Sunday Express (he does not name it, calls it simply "perhaps the most Virile and progressive London newspaper"). Sinner Russell's newsy nose became aware of a new religious movement at Oxford. He investigated it and it converted him. What he tells will mostly be old stuff to Buchmanites, but onlooking sinners will welcome this thoroughgoing if diffuse report on the Methodism of our day. Buchmanism, much more respectable than it was a few years ago, is apparently much less preoccupied by sex-sensationalism. Says Russell. "The words purity and impurity...