Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were out of work, and angry. Every day the strike lasted, more were thrown out of work. Hundreds of trains were shunted out of service. The thousands of citizens who had jammed postoffices with Christmas bundles to beat the Government's rail embargo on freight, parcel post and express shipments, raised their voices against Lewis...
...four-engined York monoplane, London-bound, the "No Smoking" sign stayed on for an hour out of Karachi. When it went out, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, in a front-row seat, chain-smoked State Express 555 cigarets, buried his hawk's head in a book pointedly titled A Nation Betrayed. Behind him sat Pandit Jawar-halal Nehru, chain-smoking Chesterfields, wearing Western-style clothes for the first time in eight years. Between Karachi and Malta, Nehru breezed through Rosamond Lehmann's The Ballad and the Source and Sinclair Lewis' Cass Timberlane, chatted with his good friend, Sikh leader
...Madistas, taking the elements of each art, build;, that is, we make a real invention. With this we don't express anything, we do not represent anything, we do not symbolize anything. We create the thing in its unique presence. . . . The thing is in Space and is in Time; it exists. Our art is human, profoundly human, since it is the person in all its essence that consciously creates, does, builds and invents...
Europe, Ho! Touring Europe in the summer will be back in fashion next year. So American Express president Ralph T. Reed hopefully predicted last week as he landed in Manhattan after a two-month European tour. Because of the food shortage England still frowns on tourists but most of the Continent had the welcome mat out. Last week the U.S. Army was even considering letting tourists into Bavaria to help the Germans get some dollar credits. Next year there will be a good bit of transportation available on planes (an estimated 100,000 seats) and ships...
...angry reader had called this radical change of tune. The reader was outraged by Moorehead's statement that Prime Minister Churchill had tried to horn in on Monty's invasion plans just before DDay, and had been squelched. The complainant was powerful enough to get the Express to back down. His name: Winston Churchill...