Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professional trick," snorted the Tory Daily Express at these outbursts. "The more the Tories hate Mr. Bevan, the higher will be his prestige in his party." Just the same, Labor Party leaders who knew they had to woo former Tories in order to stay in power were appalled by the Bevan outburst (see cut). On Bevan's Chelsea house someone painted: "Vermin Villa-home of a loudmouthed...
Then he spent a brief, unhappy term working for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express-a career terminated by a typically Waughlike misunderstanding. One day Editor Beverley Baxter saw Evelyn lolling in a chair in the reporters' room, and asked him his name. "Waw," was the answer that reached Baxter's ears, and, thinking that the young man was making a rude noise, the editor fired...
...admire. The State Department's Voice Of America has asked permission to use the story in a broadcast to overseas listeners. Park Commissioner Robert Moses, who has his own special view of the city, paused in his labors long enough to declare that the TIME story did not express the community spirit of New York sufficiently. A surprising number of TIME-reading residents, however, sent in a quiet plug for their particular "dignified street in Flatbush," thus suggesting that, large as it is, New York City does have a communal spirit...
...Friends agreed as to how tl beginning should be made. At one conference, union representatives put up loudspeakers through which they berated the Taft-Hartley Act. The harangues came through clearly in the handsome Quaker homes that border the Pendle Hill property, causing these quiet neighbors to express definite anxiety at such stridency...
...careful religious education, says Mrs. Chaplin, should help a child to express church doctrine in his own words. She quotes Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick's account of a 14-year-old boy's answer to the question: "Why did Jesus have to die?" Replied the youngster...