Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose printmaking shop stood near the school. "I used to peer into his window every evening," says Rivera, "until at last he invited me inside. We talked together for seven years, about politics and art. He taught me the connection between art and life; that you can't express what you don't feel...
...Fugitive. What a clinker! I'd have lost money if they'd made me a present of it and paid the express...
...Capp, of Schmoo and L'il Abner fame, Bill Mauldin, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, Irving T. McDonald, WEEI news analyst, and William E. Mullins, politics editor of the Boston Herald will take the Forum platform at 8 p.m. to express their personal views on the matter of the almighty dollar's effect on the nation's press and radio...
...Formers," proclaimed the Daily Express, "ar welcum to Docter Folics nu Inglish. WE PREFER IT AS IT IS." But the Evening Standard felt constrained to point out that "spelling reform is supported by many of the leading intelligence of the country." One of these, of course, was G. B. Shaw, who long ago had pointed out that under the present system the word "fish" might just as well be spelled GHOTI; GH as in enough, O as in women, TI as in nation. GH-O-TI = fish...
...with the yanquisl" Shirt-sleeved students gave Butler an angry escort as he drove first to the Ministry of State, then to Marti's statue, where he planted a wreath of yellow dahlias (cost: $50, paid by the Navy) and read an apology in English: "[I wish to express my very profound regret at the unfortunate conduct of several sailors of the U.S. Navy." "Out!" snarled the students as the ambassador's car rolled away. Presently the wreath was torn to bits...