Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pair draw cards marked "Edward" and "Wallis," they move ahead fast; if they draw "Canterbury," they are "sent into exile." As a promotion stunt Miss Davis recently sent a box of Love to the Archbishop of Canterbury. This week, according to a columnist in London's Daily Express, she got his answering letter. "It was a model of frigidity...
...more familiar to Europeans than Anthony Eden's famed black Homburg is British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's black, rolled umbrella. Last week a newshawk from the London Daily Express sought out the salesman from whom Mr. Chamberlain bought it. With characteristic British clarity, the salesman described it: "It's what one might call a Rolls-Royce of an umbrella, natty but quiet, solid but a light dasher. The sort of umbrella which becomes part...
...some conservative anthropological quarters it was feared that Dr. Broom might be a trifle overenthusiastic. Dr. Broom, however, invited Dr. William King Gregory to come over to South Africa, examine his skulls, express any opinion he liked. Dr. Gregory (of Columbia University, Manhattan's American Museum) is a top-notch paleontologist who knows as much about the evolution of primate teeth as anyone alive. He went, looked. By last week he was back and perfectly willing to add his opinion that the Broom finds are of "exceptional importance...
Harry Rawstrom, middle distance express, will be the strong point--and just about the only one of the Springfield tank team that meets the Crimson Varsity here this afternoon at 4:00 o'clock. Highlight of the meet should be the race between Rawstrom and Eric Cutler in the quarter-mile...
...Masses, Fellow Lahey defended him with a letter which exposed some city editors' secrets and made the Transcript front page: "Twenty-five cents in telephone calls from a newspaper office will create a 'public clamor'. . . . Every newspaper office has a standing list of windbags who will express an opinion on anything...