Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...camera discreetly looks the other way whenever he tries to haul himself up the side of a horse. The day is plainly not far off when Wayne will have to trade that pretty palomino for a sensible buckboard, and in the last line of the film the moviemakers wistfully express what millions of moviegoers will undoubtedly feel. As Big John strides resolutely into the sunset, the heroine (Ina Balin) calls after him: "Goodbye. We'll miss you. We've kind of gotten used...
...sending you a letter," the telephone caller told John D. B. Junor, editor of the London Sunday Express (circ. 3,766,724). "Maybe you would like to publish it." To Editor Junor, that was the understatement of the week. The very next Sunday, at the very top of the Readers' Letters column on page 4, under the headline ''I protest-" appeared the work of Junor's caller. It was signed Beaverbrook-the one man in all England who can be sure his letters to the Express will always be published...
...Express proprietor and Junor's boss, British Press Lord Beaverbrook was only exercising a publisher's right to disagree with his own paper. A devout and hymn-singing Presbyterian, the Beaver had been irritated by a Sunday Express story about some British clergymen who deplored the assault tactics of door-to-door canvassers for two religious faiths: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). Thundered disgruntled Reader Beaverbrook: "Mormon missionaries represent an important and dignified branch of the Christian religion. Their people in Utah and elsewhere are good-living...
...want to express my thanks for your insight and understanding. You are a tough-minded critic and a perceptive analyst. The amount of creative effort which you put into the story is a standard which the head of any company might envy...
...importer, a paper manufacturer, three kin of the Guinness clan (stout and beer), and Maurice Macmillan, 40-year-old son of Britain's Prime Minister. Its editor is Morley Richards, 54, a craggy and capable journalist with 28 years' experience on Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (circ. 4,313,063), 14 of them as news editor...