Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baron Beaverbrook, most powerful press tycoon of Fleet Street, arrived in Manhattan on the Bremen last week to face reporters eager to get at the bottom of why his Daily Express and other London papers have not printed the Mrs. Simpson story. "You are the censor!" cried a reporter. Replied Lord Beaverbrook...
...bass trumpet. In London last summer Reiner quietly persuaded Philadelphia's Mrs. Curtis Bok to lend him four tuben and a bass trumpet, had them shipped to San Francisco, hired four members of the Oakland Symphony to practice up on them. This week when he hopped the Overland Express for New York, he left behind him an orchestra warm with his praises, a jubilant press, an Opera Association beaming unanimously over San Francisco's most momentous season...
...White cause this week that Premier Largo Caballero and his Valencians were arraigned as follows by Philosopher Mieuel de Unamuno, Rector of the University of Salamanca : "The University, while not mixing in politics because of its spiritual mission extending through centuries of tradition, feels itself in duty bound to express in a virile manner its condemnation of the crimes of the [Caballero] Loyalists of Spain...
...give a 'goody-goody talk' but let the thoughts you express delve very deeply into life...
Month ago Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. announced that in the first nine months of 1936 it had set new records for passenger, mail and express transport. Last week, faced by the winter slump which has always hurt passenger flying, TWA made the most important bid for travelers any U. S. airline has offered in a long time. This major transcontinental system cut its fares approximately to the level of ordinary railroad fares, considerably below extra-fare trains...