Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gare de Lyon flashbulbs flared. Newshawks elbowed each other to catch a glimpse of the glamorous prisoner. The door of a third-class compartment in the Riviera express swung open and out stepped three gendarmes. Between two of them, walking daintily in her high, furred boots, her shoulders draped with mink, and her charming features concealed behind a heavy black veil, stepped Marga, the Countess d'Andurain, 51, globe-trotter and alleged secret agent. She had come back to Paris, this time charged with murder...
...hardiest rivals were Little Pierre, a sleek Labrador also owned by Bakewell, an Eastern dog named Scoronine, and a picturesque Golden retriever with a storybook name-Stilrovin Nitro Express. Some of the others had lost out by committing sins of youth and inexperience: 1) breaking ahead of the signal, 2) going after a decoy instead of a duck, 3) biting the birds too hard. On the water tests, excitable Little Pierre, who was not yet four, hit the water like an outboard motor, bore down on the floating ducks and hustled back. But when the chips were down, Pierre handled...
...Call Me Mister," six months and a road company away from its Broadway opening, is still a great show. Harold Rome's music and lyrics, particularly "The Red Ball Express" and "Military Life," and most emphatically "South America Take It Away," have managed to outlast the combined kiss of death of the radio and juke box, while the entire east is only a shade or two below the group which has made "Call Me Mister" the best musical in New York...
Surprisingly enough for a musical, "Call Me Mister" has serious overtones. In one brief scene outside a trucking employment agency, where five men, including two Negroes, are remembering with pride their work together on the Red Ball Express, the whole problem of the Negro in America is pointed up by the ironic ending when only the three white men are hired for the civilian trucking job. And again, the Southern Senator sequence is not only good burlesque, but a serious commentary on bigotry and the unprincipled use of the veteran vote in America...
...Guild strike against Hearst's Los Angeles evening Herald & Express for about the same terms demanded of J. David Stern ended after 83 days. The Guild had asked for a 40% pay boost, settled for 14%. Cried the Herald & Express in a front-page editorial: "It was a senseless strike . . . the workers lost money, the newspaper lost money . . . the public of Southern California was deprived of its greatest daily newspaper...