Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young America took six months to paint. Wyeth got the idea for it when he saw a Chadds Ford boy coming down the street on a shiny new bicycle covered with gadgets. "Somehow he seemed to express a great deal about America," says Andy. "I thought to myself, 'Now he thinks his bicycle is wonderful, but in a year he'll earn enough to buy himself a car.' I was struck by the freedom he represented-by distances in this country, the plains of the Little Bighorn and Custer and Daniel Boone and a lot of other...
Perhaps the main path from Lamont to Sever could be made into a one-lane speedway to handle express classgoer traffic, and all local and westbound idlers could be shunted off to other routes, thereby reducing the accident toll. Or maintenance men could rip out the soundproofing in the library. If asked any questions, they could say that this was going to be done all along because the University has found that the suppression of noise violates the principles of academic freedom...
...such bloopers are becoming rarer as reporters learn to detect the booby traps. The heartening fact is that in the years when history has borne down on the U.S. like an express train so many Washington correspondents have caught so much of the news...
...reign of the Renos lasted only three years. When local sheriffs proved unable to catch them, the victimized express company called in Allan Pinkerton, head of a small Chicago detective agency that was already using such new methods as infiltrating bandit gangs and keeping an elaborate file of criminal information. Soon the Pinkertons had all the outlaw Renos behind bars. While three of them were awaiting trial, a mob of vigilantes strung them...
...most remarkable" criminal of the Victorian era. In 35 years, he stole $4,000,000, never once resorted to violence. He forged checks on a Turkish bank, grabbed ?70,000 worth of rough diamonds in South Africa, stole 700,000 francs worth of bonds from the Calais-Paris express, and once took a famous Gainsborough painting from its frame in a London dealer's gallery. Operating mainly in Europe, he stayed out of reach of the Pinkertons, was imprisoned only twice for petty thefts. During Worth's heyday, he and William Pinkerton frequently met in a fashionable London...