Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve years U.S. cinemaddicts have listened patiently to "The Voice of the Globe" express his boundless regret at having to say farewell to Hong Kong, Stockholm, Ceylon, Prague and other scenes of his Traveltalks. The Voice belongs to a temperamental, blue-eyed romanticist named James A. FitzPatrick, the poor man's Burton Holmes, who is now seeing America last...
...occasion of our departure from this beautiful island, where we shared combat in strictly comradely collaboration with the Italian forces, I feel it my duty to express to Your Excellency my deepest thanks for untiring and arduous work in favor of our units in your province...
Cried the London Sunday Express: "Do we even now understand that we are at death grips in a fight for our lives? We do not. . . . These crowds of people . . . were symptoms of a fatal frame of mind. Their peril and their fate were at the back of that mind. Custom and habit were at the front of it. . . . If the cause of the shut down is lack of raw materials, then a sad situation exists. If the cause is 'holiday is as usual,' then a scandalous situation exists...
...dialogue of Fight Camp is not the sort usually provided by soap operators. Characters inquire of one another: "What manhole did you crawl out of?" and express such opinions as "This guy'll louse us up." Its first episode revolves about the widow's search for a fighter of sufficient prowess to prevent her establishment's going broke...
...President.' " Wrote Publisher Knight-also publisher of the Akron Beacon-Journal (Independent) and the Miami Herald (Democratic): "From time to time the Free Press proposes to speak quite as vigorously about the shortcomings in our national defense policies as does Lord Beaverbrook in his London Daily Express. This is no time to use a feather duster when a club may be needed...