Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sorts of people asking specific information (e.g., "what's this new country club in town people have been asking about?"), an invitation from a local civic organization to participate in one of its projects, the usual run of publicity agents plugging their clients, people who dropped in to express their views on the political situation, and those who were lonely and just wanted someone to talk...
...eight weeks, Lord Beaverbrook's London Sunday Express had given four columns an issue to a serialized digest of a new book called Montgomery, "the authentic life story" written by its topflight war correspondent, tiny, toothy Alan Moorehead...
Last week the Express abruptly gave the back of its hand to Alan Moorehead, who had just quit the Express to write more books. The Express warned its readers that perhaps the biography was not so authentic after all (though most of Fleet Street guessed that Monty had read and approved it). In an acid review in the Express, Brigadier A. H. Head (retired), a Conservative M.P., snorted that some passages dealing with top-level goings-on "are filled with inaccuracies and even distortions. [They] have that gossipy, irresponsible touch associated more with the works of [Harry] Butcher and [Ralph...
...severe restriction is in effect on the dispatching of holiday gift packages to points outside the Boston postal district, according to officials of the U. S. Post Office and the Railway Express Agency. The curtailment is in accordance with yesterday's railway freight embarge, made necossary by the current coal strike...
Both Railway Express and U. S. Post Office authorities made it clear that further restrictions will depend on coal strike developments...