Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lord Beaverbrook's flamboyant Sunday Express of London is one of Britain's most popular papers. One reason: Nathaniel Gubbins, a 50-year-old, pink-faced fellow who looks like a shy insurance agent whose feet hurt. Nathaniel (real name: Norman) Gubbins is a columnist...
Cockney. Nathaniel Gubbins says of himself: "I am an English Cockney." He got his first job in the Daily Express library, filing clippings. After World War I he was rehired as a reporter, but later was laid off. He tried short-story writing, then caught on as a reporter for the London Daily Mirror. There he acquired no reputation, but did acquire a wife: Mirror Reporter Phillida Hughes. They were once assigned to cover a pomp-&-pageantry affair. Since both suffered from ochlophobia (fear of crowds), they covered it from a tea shop. Gubbins wrote a glowing account...
After a stint on the Sunday Dispatch he joined the Sunday Express, in November 1930, began writing "Sitting On The Fence" for Express readers, who immediately began to lob indignant letters into the Express office. Nat Gubbins kept at it, slowly acquired his present tremendous following...
Well, here 'tis another week and again we have no time to write home to Ma, much less write columns for newspapers. But we've got our pants now and nothing can mar our happiness. So, pardon us if we just muse for 250 words or so... to express that carefree spirit which is ours...
Those who express grave concern about the future of the country if the liberal arts were destroyed are entirely right. For there can be no question that the basis of a free society is the education which that society provides. But surely the problem is much broader than the kind of curriculum and the size of the student body of our colleges in the years of war. The problem concerns the general education of young men and women at both the school and college level...