Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cost was not the only trouble. Scarcity had resulted in voluntary reductions in the size of newspapers. Penny papers, like the Daily Mail and Daily Express, which used to run from 16 to 20 pages, were months ago reduced to twelve, the great twopenny London Times to 16. By last week all dailies including the Times were down to an average of ten pages, twelve on Sundays. With only a 300,000-ton reserve of newsprint, a ten-week supply of pulp for Britain's mills, a publishers' agreement to reduce all papers to six pages was momentarily...
...Heavenly Express (by Albert Bein; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden). In recent years playwrights have been busy pulling the lids off coffins. Heavenly Express plays along with On Borrowed Time, Death Takes a Holiday, The Fabulous Invalid, Liliom, Outward Bound-this time dressing Death up as a hobo...
...good and bad French, Parisian and Cambridge French, plus a minor torrent of Berlitz, Quebec, Linguaphone, Minneapolis, and Sornbonne French. Ah, thought Vag, just like those immortal days in Paris--he heard a particularly grating bit of Brooklynese patois and corrected himself-or rather those hours at the American Express office. Altogether, he felt sure that La Marseillaise should have been heard faintly in the background...
...Joseph, Mo. a stamp commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Pony Express; at Tuskegee, Ala. a stamp honoring Booker T. Washington; at Jefferson, Ga. one honoring Dr. Crawford W. Long...
...invasion was U. P.'s Peter C. Rhodes, who had been sent to the iron-ore port of Narvik, witnessed the German landing, then got across the Swedish border to report it from Abisko, 40 miles away. Not so lucky was Giles Romilly, correspondent for the London Daily Express, also in Narvik. A British subject, nephew by marriage of Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, Correspondent Romilly was clapped under arrest, kept prisoner in the Hotel Royal, while the Nazi press made fun of him in Germany...