Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After diligent rehearsal under the supervision of U.S. Comedian Danny Kaye, a royal family favorite, the eight young Mayfair belles staged a spirited cancan* complete with panty-revealing finale. The Douglas' 250-odd guests roared with approval and demanded an encore. Two days later the Daily Express headlined: PRINCESS MARGARET DOES THE CANCAN. British tongues clucked disapproval...
...news as it comes in and saying 'publish this' or 'don't publish that' ... is too fantastic . . . [But] of course I am consulted and give decisions." Lord Beaverbrook, a lusty battler for free enterprise and Empire first, snapped: "I run my papers [Daily Express, Evening Standard] purely for the purpose of making propaganda ... On the few occasions when [my editors] have had different views on an Empire matter to myself, I talked them out of it." The commission also heard Lord Camrose (Daily Telegraph), Lord Rothermere (Daily Mail), Harry Guy Bartholomew (Daily Mirror...
...horse which ran away. When the neighbors came to express their sympathy the man said: 'Who knows what is good luck and what is bad luck...
...real trouble with British exports to dollar areas does not lie in exchange rates, but in Britain's high production costs. Get away from currency entirely and express these in man-hours per unit produced. The British product costs more than the U.S. product because British production is less efficient. No matter how she fiddles with the currencies, Britain cannot expand her U.S. market on a long-range basis until real costs are cut by more efficient machines, management and labor. The present crisis is a powerful pressure on British management and labor to become more efficient. Devaluation...
...member of the CRIMSON editorial staff during college years, I wish to express hearty approval of your forth right and courageous stand in behalf of academic freedom and Harvard honor, in opposing the "witch-hunting" proposal to exclude from the University's teaching personnel anyone endorsing or supporting the ideals and philosophy of Communism...