Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Friends. Chief insider in the 'Beaverbrook set" is fat, bland, arrogant Valentine Edward Charles (''Val") Browne, Viscount Castlerosse, who is regarded in London as an English Walter Winchell, gets $25,000 a year for turning out a half page of heavy chitchat for the Sunday Express and Daily Express. Sample: "I have had to give up reading bridge articles, because I notice that Y and Z always get the good hands, whereas poor old A and B usually only save a slam by preternatural cunning. I know so well what A and B feel." The two Beaverbrook...
...Beaverbrook, Britain's frontier is not the Rhine of Herr Hitler, but South Africa. Beaverbrook's Empire is thus the kind that would sign the pact of Munich, and the Express now praises Chamberlain as a "champ" who has bowled over all his foes-at least in England...
Lately the Express has also declared: 1) "Palestine . . . is not a British interest"; 2) "There must be a redistribution in Africa sooner or later"; and 3) "There is unrest among the German-speaking people of [Alsace]." This is the kind of Empire that Beaverbrook believes will best serve Britain's future and save its millions of Beaverbrook readers from becoming bomb and bullet fodder. That Lord Beaverbrook does believe in it is almost the only thing that can be said of him without dispute...
...Express correspondents sometimes slip hot news items past foreign censors by addressing their cables to "lack Glass House, London...
...comparatively new and far more sedate Telegraph building is only a few doors from the Express. Fleet Street wags have compared them to a stockbroker taking his mistress to dinner...