Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...print that "in Navy ranks the news of their new CINCUS caused one cheer, two shivers?". . . About the cheer you may be right when you say I "was for the new commander's reputation as a thoroughly experienced, altogether first-class Navy man," although you do not fully express it. The fact is Vice Admiral Hepburn is known as a first-rate seaman; an indefatigable worker; a profound thinker; a man of keen judgment and a master of his profession, who, by training, experience and professional attainments, is thoroughly fitted to be Commander-in-Chief...
...swank Avenue Hotel, he will find elevators, a manicurist, a good jazz band and a fine table. His safari, entirely organized for him by experts, will cost him about $2,000 a month per gun. His white hunter will take him where the game is, stand by with an express rifle in case he misses. His black boy will have a hot bath and a cold drink ready at the finish of a day's hunting. The only things the sportsman is advised to bring to Africa with him are: dinner jacket, Springfield rifle & ammunition, alligator raincoat, chamois windbreaker...
...author answers in an epilog, employing the old device of a dialog between the author and one of the characters who objects to his role in the book. A naturalist in philosophy, George Santayana is no naturalistic novelist, concerns himself little with realistic details. Instead, he has attempted to express the "poetic truth," rather than the literal truth about his people...
Calls for luggage to be forwarded by Air Express will be promptly made...
...appeared as candidates for the Red Book staff at the initial meeting Wednesday evening, and ten more have signed up since. Chairman Bunker explained the plan of dividing the heelers into groups, each of which will cover one sport; and cards were handed out upon which the candidates could express their preference as to the sport they would like to cover...