Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cartoonist Strube of the Daily Express acknowledged the epidemic with a drawing (see cut) in which all Britain's political leaders were disguised as Charlie Chaplin in famed Chaplin films. Central figure was Stanley Baldwin, while the slightly sinister Baron Beaverbrook (as Jackie Coogan) squatted on the curbstone beside him. Not so obvious to U. S. readers was Secretary of State for the Dominions Jim Thomas, sprawled on a sofa while a coronetted earl lit his cigar; Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden tripping up an ineffectual little man in a bowler hat who represents the British taxpayer...
...under thirty-five treat the opinions of their elders. The opposition to the erection of a memorial chapel in the Yard was conducted by a group of men who firmly believed and still believe in the sound basis of their opposition and who tried in a dignified way to express themselves. They had as little respect for the type of conduct which led to the publication last Friday of an anonymous broadside of sensational character as they had for the type of conduct which made light of their convictions. For any one of a number of reasons already expounded they...
...could have been chosen, that a University auditorium or a scholarship foundation would have been more in keeping with the circumstances, it also believes it is the interest of all Harvard men to cooperate with the Administration to the end that as far as possible the new chapel shall express the desires of the majority...
...this symposium my part is only to sit in silence. To express one's feelings as the end draws near is too intimate a task...
...transcontinental airmail and passenger line is costly, as T. A. T. and Western Air Express have learned. Moreover, operation of the transcontinental & western route has not proved profitable because it is not yet flown by night, hence does not receive a large share of transcontinental mail. For that reason, but principally because of the general difficulties that have beset most airlines, Western Air Express has run somewhat short of funds. Last week it raised between $750,000 and $1,000,000 by selling 50,000 shares of its stock to General Aviation Corp., aviation subsidiary of General Motors Corp...