Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether they are official or not, the British Navy has sharp-eyed friends in Norway. The Altmark had not proceeded more than 100 miles south of Bergen, closely hugging the craggy, fjord-bitten coast, before three big British reconnaissance planes swooped low over her. Soon after, with express Admiralty orders to do so, into Norwegian waters from their stations on North Sea patrol raced a British cruiser and five destroyers. The destroyer Intrepid halted the Altmark, but while Captain Philip Louis Vian of the senior destroyer Cossack had words with the Norwegian gunboat's commander, the Altmark slid into...
Died. Rudy Wiedoeft, 46, idolized saxophonist of the '205, whose pupil, Hubert Prior Vallee, adopted his teacher's first name to express admiration of his teaching; of a stomach ailment; in Flushing...
Editorially many newspapers figured the same thing in different terms. Snorted Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express: "It is all give by the Government, it is all take by the railways. And who gets nothing? The public...
Joseph Paul-Boncour, onetime French Foreign Minister and perennial delegate to the League of Nations, had to leave his compartment on the Paris-Hague express when a broken pipe suddenly drenched him with steam. Quipped a colleague: "You have just rendered impromptu homage to Finland by taking a Finnish steam bath...
...undersigned delegates to the American Youth Institute in Washington wish to express their disapproval of your editorial of Tuesday, February...