Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficulties, portrayal of your true "down and outer is well done. He has achieved this beaten, despairing air which is typical of the breed. In addition, he gives impression of quiet power and earnestness which enable him to across a hard luck story in a thoroughly moving fashion: to express the wronght sentimentality which accompanys the hackneyed thesis of "the lure of the theatre" with surprising conviction. His humor is natural, forced, at times naive. But the "Happy Farrell of Carroll and Farrell, Song Dances, and Funny Sayings' 'takes himself and his woes so seriously that missed the optimism...
...following rules are also in force: "No student is permitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatever." "A student who is not in the examination room within five minutes after the hour appointed for the examination shall not be admitted without permission of the instructor or the officer in general in charge of the examinations...
...Radioed to the U. S. (his aged mother was listening in at Rochester, N. Y.) : "The aims of the new Government [of which he is President] are simple. I know of no words in which I can express them better than in this quotation...
...spare his feelings by not telling the bad news. Marceline returns and in the end, so skillfully has incident been used to characterize his charm, that it is climax enough when Jef never learns of her unfaithfulness at all. Good shot: Marceline, leaning from a window of the Riviera express, listening to schoolchildren sing "Jean de la Lune" and remembering her simple-hearted husband...
...Hampshire Democrats, first to hold their primary, were divided into two camps only-Roosevelt and Smith. No other aspirant bothered to enter a slate of delegates. On primary day only one out of four Democrats who had voted for the Brown Derby in 1928 turned out to express a presidential preference, and of these only one in three still favored the man they had tried to put in the White House four years ago. Governor Roosevelt's clean sweep upped to 30 his total toward the magic number...