Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London Daily Express dropped a few sentimental tears last fortnight over the "muddy scar" that had been made on the grounds by bulldozers and steam shovels, "advancing like a serpent of destruction, leaving a hideous trail. ..." The Ministry of Works and Planning was not touched. Coldly, it said that in times like these, the main thing was to get the coal. They were getting it, at the rate of 25,000 tons a week...
Words cannot express the contempt with which I read the remarks made by Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith regarding our Commander in Chief in your article "Explosion in the Senate" [TIME...
...question for which all the 80 assembled newsmen, and Franklin Roosevelt, had been waiting. The question: "Mr. President, after our last meeting with you, it appears that someone stayed behind and received word that you no longer liked the term 'New Deal.' Would you care to express any opinion to the rest...
From Ankara came a footnote. London Daily Express Correspondent Cedric Salter quoted an unnamed Rumanian who saw Hitler four weeks ago: "I would not say that the war has changed Hitler much outwardly, but of late it has developed one side of his character abnormally. Before the war he was half mystic, half brutal opportunist. The opportunist has faded and with his growing personal solitariness he has become more & more otherworldly. He sleeps badly . . . rarely rises before 10:30 or 11... insists upon being alone for at least an hour each day. . . . His habits are even simpler than they were...
...opening night, Mike Todd, as much a man of the theatre as Noel Coward or George M. Cohan, seemed intent on finding that elusive something that will turn a rambling Hayride into a non-stop express for Broadway's Hall of Fame. Condensation and a half-hour's worth of sock comedy material should do the trick...