Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rumor but as fact Canadian-born Baron Beaverbrook's Daily Express reported that Canada's Bennett has persuaded the British Government to launch an Empire wheat quota scheme nearly as ambitious in regard to wheat as Baron Beaverbrook's own sweeping proposal for "Empire Free Trade" (TIME...
...would like, if possible, to avail myself of the opportunity through the medium of your paper to express to you the appreciation and gratitude of the Stanford Club of San Francisco...
Although a half century is a much longer measuring stick in the West than in the East, about a dozen metropolitan dailies on the Pacific Coast are that old, or older. The Express was alive in Los Angeles for ten years before the Times came along. In San Francisco, in 1880, Senator George Hearst accepted the nearly worthless Examiner in lieu of payment of an old debt, negligently kept it for seven years until his son William, home from Harvard by expulsion, astounded him by asking to have the paper for his own. The Chronicle's stormy career under...
...would the staff move and what was there to be for dinner?-his answer was invariable: "At daylight; cold meat." His men trusted him, admired him at a distance; called him "that long-nosed b-r that beats the French." The admiration was not mutual. Wellington's frequently-expressed opinion of Tommy Atkins: "The scum of the earth, the mere scum of the earth. . . . The English soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. . . . The man who enlists into the British army is, in general, the most drunken and probably the worst man of the trade or profession...
...least one element in the Far North the airplane is regarded with strong disfavor: the big dogteam operators, who have been put nearly out of business. The dogteams first began to suffer when the airplane companies gained a toehold on the passenger and express business; but they still had the mail. Finally this year the air services were permitted to bid for the mail and two companies, Alaskan Airways and Pacific International Airways,* won all the contracts...