Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heart-faced, carrot-topped Edna Margaret Cox (Stripteaser Margie Hart, "The Poor Man's Garbo") disclosed that since last July 4 she had been married to Army Lieut. Seaman Jacobs, her express agent. Now trouping in the play Cry Havoc, Ecdysiast Edna explained why she had stopped stripping: "It just isn't right for a married woman to do that kind of work...
...want to express my appreciation. . . . I am glad you understand that this is a "time for greatness...
...interfered with the spring plantings of rice and cotton in one of China's too-few fertile basins. Most significant act of the hit-&-run attackers was their blasting of the dikes of Tungting Lake, flooding a huge area west of the lake. China has a phrase to express the futility of invading a land where the invader is allowed to pass and then is swallowed up: "plowing water." The Japanese at Tungting Lake lent the phrase a sinister new meaning...
...course of defending Son Randolph Churchill fortnight ago (TIME, March 29), Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons it was permissible for soldiers on active service to express themselves in print. Last week, the London Evening Standard published a six-column Letter From A Soldier which pungently voiced many a Briton's opinion of talkative politicians...
...does not demand that we put aside expressions of sentiment; the war does not require that we forget out obligations to Harvard and the ideals it has taught us. Rather, the war demands that we call up those ideals for a final review, so that they may be clearly before us on the battlefields of this war. Sirs, the departing members of the College do not want to be maudlin about this business, but they do feel an attachment to Harvard and a desire for its continued well-being and succuss as a pioneer in education. This sentiment they would...