Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last week Subway Motorman Fred Floodgate had shut off his power and was coasting his northbound express into the West noth Street station when he caught a blurred glimpse of a slim, blonde woman poised on the edge of the platform. The next instant there was a downward flutter of a black-and-tan dress. Motorman Floodgate's hand stiffened on the emergency brake control. Clamped wheels shrieked. The train slid 50 ft. before stopping. Ten minutes later police gathered from the tracks the bloody remains of Elsie Green, 38. Her purse on the platform contained 55¢. A clerk...
...knows Denver or the Denver Post and that person's mind will instantly register such adjectives as "handsome," "slick," "swaggering," "noisy," "audacious," "crafty," "lusty," "flamboyant," "hot-tempered." Other words, complimentary or vituperative, might occur to commentators biased one way or the other. For instance the Scripps-Howard Express (now the Rocky Mountain News) six years ago chose these brands for Publisher Bonfils and his Post: "shame," "disgrace," "bandit," "brigand." "lawless," "bunco," "scaly monstrosity," "mountebank," "... a blackmailing, blackguarding, nauseaus (sic) sheet which stinks to high heaven and which is the shame of newspapermen the world over." But neither friend...
...recruit. Mr. Hearst was as much responsible for the shift play at Chicago resulting in the Roosevelt nomination as Mr. McAdoo. They both feared and hated internationally-minded Newton Diehl Baker as a deadlock candidate. Californians were not surprised this month when five Hearstpapers (Los Angeles Examiner and Herald & Express, San Francisco Examiner and Call and Oakland Post-Enquirer) began puffing the McAdoo Senatorial candidacy in the highly colored Hearst news columns. According to this segment of the Press, everything Mr. McAdoo said and did produced CHEERS-CHEERS-CHEERS...
...Chief Conspirator in an Italian opera. His name, according to the passenger list, was PROFESSOR CLARENCE SKINNER. Behind the bush of Professor Skinner newshawks instantly recognized the features of Rt. Hon. Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. Governor Norman promptly boarded the Bar Harbor express to visit "Larchsea," summer home of his friend Mrs. John Markoe of Philadelphia. Governor Norman's visits to the U. S. are always secretive. They almost always preface international financial developments of the greatest importance. Fortnight after his last visit, year ago, Britain went off the gold standard. Leaving Governor Norman...
...bewildered by the agreements. Liberal and Labor newspapers pointedly asked what the British consumer would get in return for the higher food taxes. Old George Lansbury, Laborite leader, announced he would fight ratification with what was left of his party. Lord Beaverbrook, the Canadian-born owner of the Daily Express, for years an advocate of Empire Free Trade, was delighted. Said the Express: "Credit goes supremely to one man, Bennett, whose sincerity and patriotism won for him the sneers and venom of a considerable section of the British press...