Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, despite bad weather, 50,000 Britons poured into Trafalgar Square for second-front mass meetings, staged by Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, where the Union Jack, Stars & Stripes and Hammer & Sickle flew in equal prominence...
...Said Peru's Dr. Manuel Prado, first South American president to visit the U.S. while in office, in a broadcast from New York: "I am glad to send my greetings to the sister nations of the continent and express to them my profound admiration for the immense effort which the great North American Republic is realizing in behalf of the ideals of democracy. The future shall gratefully remember these heroic moments of the life of humanity when at the cost of much sorrow and sacrifice the great values of civilization and of culture will be cemented...
...letter. There were all those sentences about the Concord picnic, and the firelight party in the field house the night of the dance. Every trite and sentimental thing that anyone had ever written, Vag had put into his letter because he couldn't express himself any better. He wondered what had happened to his old flair for originalities...
...mail also will get clipped; the Army this week was ominously silent when asked about rumors that much air mail will be grounded. The Cost. All this will cost the airlines a pretty penny. Last year they hauled 3,769,000 passengers, 19,210,000 pounds of express, tons and tons of mail-and earned $4,000,000 for the job. This year regular business will go to pot. The 19 U.S. airlines will be happy if they clear $1,000,000. But most airline officials this week were not complaining. Like most U.S. businessmen, they were willing to work...
...That massive power plants, trim airports, handsome broadcasting stations and telephone buildings, gleaming factories and farflung highways, truly express the character of the day. Says Hugh Ferriss: "Architecture never lies...