Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solution to the whole problem, it would seem, is merely to abbreviate sports pages in off-season periods. To tell a veteran of the Tinker to Evers to Chance school that it is unnecessary to express himself when there is nothing to say--unless he possesses the imagination and ability of the New York Herald Tribune's Red Smith, who is probably the best working sports columnist of the day--may sound like heresy, but it's undoubtedly better than myopic gaves into an athletic crystal ball...
Recently sensation-loving Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express aired the report that Britain had asked for bombs. Last week, in the U.S., conscientious Columnist Marquis W. Childs aired It further. Childs told how Bernard Baruch, chief U.S. atomic negotiator in the U.N., had been at great pains first to assure himself that there were no A-bombs in Britain, then to assure Russia's Andrei Gromyko of that same fact. Gromyko, at first dubious, came to believe Baruch...
...Daily Express, Critic John Grime was indignant because (said Grime) Disney had announced that he was going to Eire to hunt leprechauns. "... A greater piece of hocus-pocus publicity was never foisted on a realistic world," wrote Grime. Disney had carefully explained that he was going to Eire to look for story ideas for his forthcoming The Little People...
...late Herbert George Wells's will left the bulk of his estate-some $240,000 before taxes-to his two sons, a daughter-in-law, and Baroness Budberg, whom the will described as "my very dear friend." Father Wells took time out to express his "loving recognition of the good and sane behavior of all my offspring toward...
Picasso seemed like the last man in the world for the job. In 1937, art dealer Ambroise Vollard was looking for someone to illustrate Buffon's classic, 18th Century Histoire Naturelle. Picasso, who once remarked that "through art we express our conception of what nature is not," had just finished his grotesque, horribly unrealistic Guernica (TIME...