Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Harry Hervey, 50, explorer, author (The Damned Don't Cry, The Veiled, Fountain) and screen writer (Shanghai Express, Road to Singapore), who, at 16, sold his first story to H. L. Mencken's Smart Set, produced a popular novel every year between 1923 and 1933; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Peking Express (Hal Wallis; Paramount) sets out on a topical excursion into Communist China, but quickly turns into a typical train-borne melodrama, running on the same tracks as 1932's Shanghai Express. For all its world-shaking airs and its batting around of ideological platitudes, the picture carries (and is carried by) the standard load of sinister passengers scheming at cross-purposes, and the hero's burp gun has the last word...
...King and his family may not express a political opinion, even by ballot...
...Pole who reached Trieste and freedom by caching himself in the space between the ceiling and roof of a train coach on the Danzig express...
King George's vivacious younger daughter has been a favorite of the British public ever since she first made the papers at the age of one day. In honor of Princess Margaret's forthcoming 21st birthday this month, London's Daily Express borrowed a first-reader technique to explain her life in ABCs. Sample rubrics...