Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to call on the King. Leaving the Royal Palace, he discovered that his wallet containing passport, money and letters of introduction was missing. A search began and an appeal was made for its return. As "Wild Bill's" hour of de parture arrived, the Orient Express was kept waiting 20 minutes while the Royal Palace was ransacked. Finally, he departed for Yugoslavia, Greece, Albania, Turkey minus wallet and passport. He still had his watch...
...quotation of this morning from a Washington paper, President Conant's personal position in regard to the war was pictured as affecting the justice of his relations within the University. There is not a shred of basis for this imputation: and many would welcome it if the Crimson would express the strong feeling of Harvard on this point, since the University cannot but suffer when its president is defamed. William Ernest Hocking...
...express my appreciation ... for one of the finest pieces of religious journalism it has been my privilege to read...
...Mecca the arrest was just a local scandal, but to London it smacked at first of important Nazi machinations in the Middle East. Wastrel Abdul Hamid did visit Germany last year. Asserted Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express: "The conspiracy to murder King Ibn Saud was hatched not in the sultry courtyards of Mecca but in the chill, tile-floored galleries of the Wilhelmstrasse. . . . Germany's object was to start a guerrilla war behind Britain's back in Palestine and Egypt." Next day the Daily Express was curtly corrected by a Saudi Arabian official statement in London...
Although the dinner is not technically in honor of the speakers, offers of the Club express the hope that "members will recognize that such an affair gives them an opportunity to pay tribute to men who have been elected to high office...