Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bishop of Nassau, Dr. John Dauglish, to have to decide whether Communion may be administered to His Royal Highness, the new Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas, or must be withheld as it normally would be from the husband of a divorcee. In London the Daily Express of Aircraft Production Minister Lord Beaverbrook, who was strongly pro-Edward VIII at the time of abdication, tried to get an Anglican cleric to clarify the tricky Church problem...
While the 2,000,000 buyers of the Daily Express were mulling this over, the trim U. S. passenger-carrying freighter Excalibur of 9,359 tons was on an eight-day voyage across the Atlantic, featuring on her list: "Mr. and Mrs. Windsor . . . the American Ambassador to Italy William Phillips and his daughter . . . the American Ambassador to Poland and Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. ... the American Minister to The Netherlands and Mrs. George A. Gordon...
Less than 60 days ahead of elated American Export was a scheduled flight to Lisbon with mail & express, in 14 months a regular passenger service. More, the newborn line expected to do it non stop and pare Pan Am's eastbound flying time from 23 to 20½ hours. For that American Export relied on three four-motored Vought-Sikorsky 8-443 to be delivered by United Aircraft Corp. eleven, 14 and 16 months from now. Carbon copies of the U. S. Navy's new long-range bombers (with mail compartments substituted for bomb racks), the 175-m.p.h...
...this was good Sunday-feature stuff on an island where most people expect to be bombed any minute. The Daily Express headlined the landing in Halifax of Captain Cunningham-Reid: "M. P. ARRIVES WITH 2,000 CHILDREN." In Montreal, the best crack that M. P. Cunningham-Reid could think of was: "That woman again...
Flight v. Fun. Present medical fashion regards all alcoholics as neurotics and psychotics who drink to flee from harsh reality, overcome a feeling of inadequacy, or express homosexual tendencies kept under during sober periods. Doctors' great problem, says Director Nolan Dan Carpentier Lewis of New York State Psychiatric Institute, is to uncover the mental disorders which drive men to drink...