Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Aug. 22 article on the British press and its abysmal depths moves me to congratulate you. How right you are Recently the Daily Express. . . made much of your articles reference to its clever editing and enterprise. Genially patting itself on the back as it is wont to do, it stuck in its thumb and pulled out a plum and said what a good...
...SCOTT Southsea, England ¶Next to a headline on the Oued Zem massacre (WHOLE FAMILIES ARE KNIFED) the Daily Express excerpted 60 words from TIME'S 1,100-word story for an arm-wrenching Page...
...George III. "Sensible mortals," concluded the Guardian last week, "will doubtless feel that in the 20th century, such matters can safely be left to the head of the royal family without the restrictions of antique acts of Parliament." "Isn't it time," asked Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, "we took this chain from Princess Margaret?" In short, by indirection and implication, British editors seemed to be saying that if Margaret chooses to renounce her right of succession in order to marry Townsend, her decision is all right with them...
...irony of the situation somehow escaped the British press, which would almost certainly have let go a volley of criticism if the same incidents had occurred in the U.S. The Russians' reception in Canada went without comment in London last week, reported only by the Daily Express in a six-line item...
...peopled with lovely and fantastically incompetent natives who were always either crying or laughing, and for ever trying to help. "Simi [the butler] ... is breaking everything we possess. He smiles with a kind tolerance when he smashes something precious, and is more like an English colonel than words can express...