Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nary a line ... to express the sheer relief with which most of us viewed the elimination of this political charlatan, this masquerader. He may now take his rightful place among the three other horsemen of apostasy in New Deal administration...
...Pony Express. In Detroit, police arrested a pony suspected of being the hit-&-runner who ignored a red light, ran down two pedestrians...
...last week a rickety, hard-used little toy wagon, with most of the red paint scuffed off the magic word "Express" on its side, was parked casually at the base of the fat, towering northwest column of the White House front portico. Beside it rested a vehicular gadget best known to childhood as an "Irish Mail," a contraption very like a railroad handcar...
Both these toys lay neglected as Master John Boettiger, 5, pursued his recurring ambition to become a White House guard. But not for long. Interests ebb & flow fast at five. Soon, Johnny was back at his habit of riding the Irish Mail or the Express wagon back & forth on the long cement walkway that stretches just south of the sprawling White House, flashing briefly at one end into the vision of his grandfather, the President...
...romantic lead opposite diaphanous Evelyn Laye in The Merry Widow. A string of stage and cinema hits followed; there were Carl Brisson fan clubs, chocolates, cigarets, bathing suits. Lord Beaverbrook ran Brisson's life story in ten installments in the Sunday Express. Hollywood discovered...