Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Under the depressing caption "Cruises Cancelled" in TIME, Jan. 11, you mention among other items of travel news that Cie Internationale des Wagons Li ts et des Grands Express Européens abandoned the Manhattan office (No. 701 Filth Avenue). This statement, technically correct, is nevertheless misleading. It would have been better to explain that the building was abandoned, and not the office. This office staff, furniture, etc., was moved from its one-story premises at No. 701 Fifth Avenue to the recently enlarged Thos. Cook & Son offices at No. 587 Fifth Avenue, comprising six working floors. (Thos. Cook...
...whom had died, was made, an indemnity paid, and the anti-Japanese boycott called off. The city was on edge. Somebody planted a bomb in the Nanking Theatre, largest cinema in Shanghai. It fizzled. A nervous Chinese sentry shot and killed Dr. Alexander Proges, Austrian manager of American Express Co. (known to Chinese taxi drivers as Mei-gwok wantung ngan-hong). A Chinese munitions launch blew up in the middle of the river, killed 35 coolies, just as a passenger airplane was passing overhead. Thousands of citizens thought the Japanese invasion had begun. There are no cellars to hide...
...Unlike Western poetry, a Japanese poem is not intended to express a complete thought but to suggest a series of poetic ideas in the reader's mind...
...printing or telling the truth; he is just broadcasting a lot of lying propaganda. In that case, would it not be more sensible and less cruel to fight fire with fire and retaliate by spreading propaganda for one's own side? Better to allow both factions to express themselves whether they stick to the truth or not. For in the welter of lies it is quite conceivable that truth, or the closest approximation of it possible, might pay. Honesty would be such a rarity that the person who possessed it would be listened to before everyone else...
...calling: "Have you an extra oxygen tent? We have a 12-year-old boy here who's failing. . . . Operation for mastoid.'' Not one extra tent was there in all the dozen institutions. Patten Levings, son of the city editor of the Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express, would have to die for lack of oxygen-rich...