Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because Queen Elizabeth II's "public relations are too often bungled," London's Sunday Express set aside chauvinism, nominated an American "expert" for the job of handling palace public relations. The Express' choice: suave expatriate Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., K.B.E., "a good mixer, a tireless getter-about and smoother-out of trouble...
...gates and took Budweiser to bars all over St. Louis. People were backed all the way out to the curb waiting for their turn at the bar." Gussie, his father and his older brother picked one of the first cases off the bottling-plant line and sent it air express to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a heartfelt token of thanks. Ever since Gussie Busch has been a Democrat ("I'll be damned if I'll bite the hand that fed me"), thus giving some latter-day verisimilitude to Horace Greeley's remark, circa 1860: "I never...
...traders and the urban masses. It is a fascinating historical curiosity that in the era of capitalism's greatest practical success (1910-55) it suffered a devastating loss of theoretical prestige. This accounts for the negative quality of so much Republican leadership. Most G.O.P. spokesmen seem able to express what they are against, but not what they...
...wired its counterparts at Harvard, "alumni Universitatis Yalensis hie in Novo Portu congregati classi simili Harvardensi salu-tem plurimam dicimus." As any Harvard-man would know, this was another way of saying: "After 50 years of mutual friendship, we alumni of Yale University assembled here in New Haven express affectionate greetings to the corresponding class of Harvard...
Forces of Repression. After the revolt, General Franklin Lucero, Perón's Army Minister and reputedly one of his closest military friends, formally took over -"at the express orders of the President" -the task of safeguarding "internal order and public tranquillity." An army communiqué stated that, as "Commander in Chief of the Forces of Repression," Lucero would be in charge of all security forces, even the federal police. With Lucero holding the big stick, Perón tried to quiet the nation's alarm by speaking softly-and with unabashed cynicism. He blamed "Communist elements...