Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SUBWAY EXPRESS-Mechanical murder in the rush hour...
...them La Famille Royale and honor as Le Roi de France the gentleman whom the world calls only the Due de Guise. The son, Prince Henri Robert Ferdinand Marie Louis Philippe, is hailed as Le Dauphin de France, or Crown Prince. One day last week as the North Star express from Brussels thundered into Paris, there occurred such a demonstration that pop-eyed strangers might have supposed the Royal Family were returning in triumph to resume their reign...
...Dealer Godfrey Phillips of London ordered sent from Belgium a canvas by Sir Anthony Van Dyck which he intended to buy for $100,000. The picture, called Concert des Anges, shows a life-size Madonna and Child surrounded by buxom angels. When the packing case arrived in London the express company told Dealer Phillips that the box had arrived in damaged condition. Said he: "Never mind about the case; is the picture all right...
Dealer Phillips hurried to the express office, found in the case a big gilt frame with ragged edges of canvas where the painting had been torn out. There was no clue as to the time or place of the theft. Dealer Phillips said he believed it the work of a "novice or an expert in a great hurry...
...Minister André Tardieu (L'Americain) of France. Said he: "I take particular pleasure in this because I was myself one of the Consolidated Press Association's earliest contributors when it inaugurated the happy plan of opening its wires to Europeans in political life, permitting them to express freely their views to the American public. ... So far as a government can exercise by frankness and honesty an educative influence on public opinion in both countries, I promise you that so long as I remain in office I shall do everything in my power ... to achieve that salutary...