Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What She Can't Do. Elizabeth cannot vote. Nor can she express any shading of political opinion in public. The last monarch who did that was George III, who in 1780 personally canvassed Windsor against the Whig candidate Keppel. Elizabeth cannot sit in the House of Commons, although the building is royal property. She addresses the opening session of each Parliament, but she cannot write her own speech. She cannot refuse to sign a bill of Parliament. She cannot appear as a witness in court, or rent property from her subjects...
London's Sunday Express reported that King George VI had a new outdoor item in his wardrobe: an electrically heated waistcoat, made of khaki silk, ribbed with wires which feed from a pocket battery...
...should like to take the opportunity provided by your letter column to express the Advocate's sincere regret to its readers for any similarity between material which appeared in its December issue and writings previously published elsewhere. We do not condone our error, although it is an obvious fact that we cannot be expected to have read and become acquainted with all plagiarizable literature...
...there any hope for the men of the Flight? Picard has no answer, except his own faith. Concluding, he tries to express for his century what Francis Thompson said for the 19th, George Herbert and John Donne for the 17th, and the Psalmist centuries before.* Writes Max Picard: "Whithersoever they may flee, there is God . . . Ever more desperately they flee, but God is already in every place, waiting for them to come...
...Unit No. 140 during the same period. Among them: Tom O'Connor,* later a writer on Manhattan's PM and now managing editor of its successor, the Compass; Charles Daggett, onetime pressagent for James Roosevelt and now a movie publicity man; Philip M. Connelly, Los Angeles Herald-Express reporter who later became state C.I.O. president and is now one of the fifteen California Communist leaders awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy under the Smith Act. Judson said the Communist unit concerned itself principally with trying to dominate the management and policies of the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild, although...