Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editorial in the Sunday Express warned somberly that "the current of American thought has set lately against partnership in our war." Other papers told their readers that U.S. aircraft production was slow, that polls showed that only 20% of the U.S. favored a declaration of war. Some went on to caution their readers against believing that Russia would...
...Express Trains. Men who watched were blinded by what they saw. They clung to stanchions, to each other, waiting for sight to return, for the earth where they stood to still itself. And as they wove drunkenly about, they heard the deadly tumult of twelve tons of steel hurtling away, whistling and rattling like more express trains than any man had ever heard together...
Landing at a Scottish port two days later, he spent most of the night working in his train, the crack Peregrine express, which was reported to have been Nazi machine-gunned only 24 hours previously. Next morning at King's Cross Station, suburbanites on their way to work were surprised to see a great crowd of Government and fighting-service notables gathered on one of the platforms. Out of the rear car stepped the roly-poly figure...
...Hotel. Strange noises, vile language, fancy diving in the swimming pool. It was found later on, that it all came from a member of the staff of the American Legation here at Managua, a member of the staff of Pan American Airways (to whom we owe your splendid Air Express edition) and an English traveler. The night watchman was unable to make gentlemen out of the three of them, and they only quieted down when the percentage of alcohol in their system overpowered them...
...have to work unless he feels like it. Twenty-one years ago he helped young Donald Douglas launch Douglas Aircraft, pulled out of the deal five years later with what he describes as "a damned good piece of change." He made another important piece of change in Western Air Express, which he helped to organize a few years later. Nowadays Bill Henry lives in a big, nondescript house in downtown Los Angeles, enjoys winning the family tennis championship at the country club with his wife, the former top-flight tennist, Corinne Stanton, and daughter Patsy (one of three), 1935 National...