Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME was using "vulgar" to indicate a hearty British, not a self-conscious U. S. phenomenon. Fortnight ago from Capri Miss Fields telephoned the London Daily Express regarding TIME'S story. Sensibly, good-humored-ly she commented: "The customers are satisfied, aren't they? Besides, I'm not vulgar. When I'm trying not to be vulgar, everybody tells me off. I don't care what they say about me. People who see me like me. That's all that matters. I just go on in my own sweet way. My act has changed...
Orator Hitler, always somewhat feminine in contrast to the Italian Dictator's pronounced masculinity, gushed to the German Reichstag about "the leader of that great Fascist country, who is such a great friend of mine!" Der Führer continued, "I should like to express to the great Italian statesman in the name of the German people, and my own name, our warmest thanks. We know what Mussolini's attitude has meant to Germany in these days. . . . Indissoluble friendship! The land and frontiers of this friend are to us inviolable. The Italian people know that the German nation...
...society. A U. S. commercial film, Magnificent Obsession, in which Robert Taylor as a drunken playboy becomes devoted to a girl he has caused to be run over and blinded, has also made the rounds. To show all the public what church movies were like, the London Daily Express promptly pictured the scene. In Liverpool Actor Taylor proved too sugary a pill. There the picture was shown in two parts, filling the church for the first, practically emptying it for the second...
When the yacht Velero III, which by express order of its owner is referred to as a cruiser, never as a yacht, tied up in San Diego Harbor one day last week, there disembarked an eccentric man, and after him some of the earth's most eccentric animals. The man was Captain George Allan Hancock, multimillionaire California oil and real-estate operator, musician, aviator, scientist, explorer...
MOGUK, BURMA, Dec. 22 (By Pony Express to London)--On the banks of the Irrawaddy river, in Upper Burma, the American Southeast Asiatic Expedition has found a prehistoric link between two of Asia's most ancient stone age cultures...