Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guarantee it was not because she was dull. In fact, I view with alarm your report that at the age of 18 (see cut) she was a "thin, dried-up little girl who was very plain." Not so. She was a very satisfactory armful. . . . JAMES CRENSHAW Herald and Express Los Angeles
...late Colonel Edmund W. Starling (of the Kentucky colonels) might have spent a humdrum life in the South, stalking train robbers, pulling bums out of freight cars and convoying precious cargoes for the railway express company which he served as a detective. But his employers suggested cutting his pay to meet competition from parcel post. So young Starling flitted to the U.S. Secret Service...
...money to be made on hand-to-mouth freight flying, without ample capital and nationwide offices to line up business. Saunie Gravely, a 22-year-old ex-gunnery instructor, had found that out. He and 40 other veterans in Newark had raised $40,000, formed Veterans' Air Express Co., Inc. After two months of flying everything they could lay their hands on, lobsters, penicillin, flowers, turkey, etc., they decided to try flying passengers...
...London Daily Express' visiting correspondent, William Barkley, a newcomer to the U.S. scene, shuddered publicly after his first look...
...Pasadena last spring, a bevy of music-lovers went to the railroad station to greet Maestro Arturo Toscanini. Bulky Photographer Howard Ballew was on hand to cover the arrival for Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express. Said Wilfred L. Davis of the Southern California Symphony Association, eyeing Ballew's camera: "Are you going to photograph Mr. Toscanini...