Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...myself, 'have they ceased to be watchful along their coasts, these British?' Finally I found a house. The people took me to a post office. There was a pretty little clerk there and she made two telephone calls-one to the police and one to the Daily Express in London...
...there was also an old complaint. Said the Daily Mail: "A bewildering muddle of a play." The Daily Express agreed: "[The playgoers] were . . . absorbed in laughing at his agile wit and trying to puzzle out just what he was getting at. The cast shared their bewilderment. At the end of the dress rehearsal, some of them were saying: 'Beautiful words, but what do some of them mean?'" By week's end, it seemed a good bet that West End and Broadway audiences would also soon get a chance to laugh-and puzzle over-The Cocktail Party...
Willie made out all right. In The Saracen's Head, London Daily Express Cartoonist Osbert Lancaster thrusts greatness upon his unwilling hero in a bland satire that good-naturedly kids the iron pants off the whole profession of medieval arms. Written as a juvenile, it is the kind of literary fare that parents will gobble up if they can get it away from the kids. The Saracen's Head can be read in an hour, but in that brief time Willie runs his shaky lance through El Babooni, the infidel champ, is knighted by King Richard I himself...
...amount of goods Britain would be able to buy in the U.S.) now cried that U.S. prices were too low; British manufacturers could not compete with them. Other Laborite headlines: "Stop the Sneers," "Warning to Americans," "They Are Slinging Mud at Britain." Tory Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express had its own summary of these goings-on, and it was all but unique in Britain: "Judging by the undignified outburst of hysterical resentment...it looks as though all we can take today is dollars. But criticism? Never...
When Father Patterson takes over this fall, Kent anticipates few changes in its way of life. The new head has pledged himself to carry on Founder Sill's original program and continue to make "every aspect of life on the campus express and induce Christian principles and Christian living...