Word: expressione
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To the National Association of Manufacturers in Manhattan three weeks ago, Man of the Year Johnson, wearing a hard-boiled shirt and expression, even quoted from Tennyson's "Maud" a bit of heroic verse to achieve the desired effect upon his audience:
When the sacred white silk maternity belt was reverently wound around the person of Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Nogako a month ago, all Japan renewed the nation's years of patriotic Shinto prayer for a boy at last-a new Son of Heaven. Auspiciously the Empress's...
Still a housekeeper, wife and mother in spite of authorship, Julia Peterkin has little truck with literary haunts. Poet Carl Sandburg once paid her his supreme compliment when he called her the only writer he knew who was not a literary person. Tall and straight, redhaired, with a calm expression...
Free trade which is Secretary Hull's specialty (and anathema to the Roosevelt Brain Trust) was unanimously endorsed. The Conference adopted by acclaim a resolution presented by Mr. Hull with the statement that ''this proposal calls for no treaties, conventions or legal commitments." It amounted to expression...
SUPPLEMENT TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY-Edited by W. A. Craigie & C. T. Onions-Oxford "($40). Five years ago occurred one of those great literary events which few editors consider newsworthy: The Oxford English Dictionary, begun in 1857. was finished. Last month this No. i Dictionary of the English-American...