Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While a band blared before a reviewing stand and a crowd of 3,000 bellowed, two caravans ambled slowly toward each other one day last week across the bare Nebraska prairie near North Platte. First came Pony Express riders, followed by oxcarts, stage coaches, high-wheeled bicycles, "horseless carriages," and finally streamlined automobiles. Filing proudly past, they marked the climax of a ceremony which drew notables from miles around. Immediate reason for the celebration was that workmen had just finished 28 miles of new concrete road. More significant: Nebraska at last had a paved road running from...
...EXPRESS TO THE EAST-A. den Doolard -Smith & Haas ($2.50). In the maze of intrigue and assassination known as Balkan politics, the activities of the Vetrechnata Makedonska Revoliutsionna Organizatsia have given rise to strange legends. Originally a conspiratorial group seeking independence for Macedonia, V. M. R. O. organized uprisings against the Turks, bombed trains, spread a net of terror that reached into most European countries. Last spring the known history of V. M. R. 0. was recounted by Stoyan Christowe in Heroes and Assassins, Last week U. S. readers were offered a translation of a remarkable Dutch novel in which...
...attract her-the name of the man who had killed her lover. But the betrayals had become too intricate; the man named was not Todor's murderer but merely another victim of the ruling clique. Milja abandoned her errand, deceived the chiefs, was blown up in the Orient Express as it thundered past her birthplace...
...this artistic feeling of the pious Greeks and a combination of the personification of natural phenomena with that of deified heroes, that led them to express the meaning and achievements of their Gods in the eloquent sculpture and temples for which they have been heralded through the ages. And it is for this, for all the glory of the Greeks, that the Vagabond goes to the Fogg Barge Room at 11 this morning to see and hear more about Greek Art, especially The Temple of Zeus at Olympia...
...mandate has been vested in the principal Allied & Associated Powers . . . and only formally and officially confirmed by the League. . . . As a result of that fact no change either in the mandatory or in the mandate's articles can be effected without the Imperial Japanese Government's express consent...