Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SUBWAY EXPRESS-Essay in underground murder...
This note is not written in a vindictive spirit at all. It is merely an attempt on my part to express to you the honest conviction of our teachers and myself, that, in this day and generation, the likeness of the individual to whom I have referred has no place in a magazine whose business it is to set standards for American youth...
...wanted in Chicago, ordered him to get out, threatened him with arrest on sight "like any common hoodlum.'' Capone, distressed, insisted he had legal rights "like any other citizen." At the Hotel Lexington he opened "business headquarters." At 3 a.m. a reporter for the London Daily Express called him on the transoceanic telephone for an interview but central could not supply Capone's private number. To newsmen Capone carefully explained that his name is pronounced in two syllables (Capone...
Because his army is too famished and ill-equipped to fight the Irish, Essex returns to England against the Queen's express command. It is a characteristic, headstrong action; she slaps his face. To no avail does he protest his former braveries and services; the Queen scourges him with words. Outraged, he attempts to lead the people of London in revolt, is arrested, tried, sentenced to the block...
Railroad news last week centred about the Yankee Clipper. Named by a committee headed by John Coolidge, which, of course, gave it much prenatal publicity, the new New York, New Haven and Hartford's Boston-to-New York express made its first trip from Manhattan last week. Time: 4 hr. 45 min.-a quarter-hour less than it take the N. Y., N. H. & H.'s other crack Boston-New York trains, the Merchants and the Knickerbocker. More expensive by $1.30 than either of these two, a ride on the Yankee Clipper costs $12.26. The train, all Pullman...