Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confirmatory evidence was a Borah announcement: "After a thorough survey of the Ohio situation, I am convinced that the people of that State should be given an opportunity to express their choice in the Presidential primary on May 12.... To obtain an expression of popular will, it is my intention to place at least eight candidates for delegates-at-large in the field...
Provided he were known to possess a certain touch of whimsy, anyone would be forgiven for supposing that a special battalion of devils has been appointed for the express purpose of making and keeping Cambridge streets impassable in the winter. Their work begins with a heavy snow; they see to it that ploughs are kept away from the narrower streets, and especially those which cross the house area, for many hours after the snow has stopped. When ice and ruts have formed, they twist the ruts into fantastic lines and cunning grooves (for they are master engineers), so that...
...TIME, Jan. 20). Splashing full-page displays in many a newspaper, the company blazoned: TRIBUTE TO A PERFECT RECORD OF THE RAILROADS. Next day the record for 1936 was spoiled when The Williamsporter, crack Reading Railway System Express, jumped the track near Sunbury, Pa., killed one passenger...
...Sept. 2, 1913, the New York, New Haven & Hartford's crack White Mountain Express telescoped into the rear of its Bar Harbor Express near Wallingford, Conn., bringing death to 21, injuries to 50, much criticism to the railroad. To Miss Jean Annett of Red Bank, N. J.. whose neck had been broken and whose life had been despaired of, the company gave $10,000 cash, promised her $700 a month for life. Last week the New Haven, deep in Section 77-B reorganization, asked the courts to relieve it of further obligation to Miss Annett who, though confined...
...Gulliver's Travels" other than its satire, the meticulous portrayal of doll-house miniatures, is also retained in the picture for its universal appeal. There is an incredible technical skill in the way the tiny putty figures are handled. And the grotesque gesticulations and grimaces with which they express themselves, besides being an artistic triumph in caricature, are powerful agents in satirizing a capitalistic lust and craftiness...