Word: expressione
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Dorothy Wordsworth, she shows us, was a woman of extraordinary sensitiveness, with a faculty of observation almost unequalled in the history of literature, who had the power of choosing the right phrase or word, and yet whose expression was for the most part vicarious. By her stimulation, her fact...
In Mr. Robinson Crusoe (United Artists) bouncing Douglas Fairbanks Sr. cheerfully burlesques Daniel Defoe's old story. He does it by his familiar formula of expansio ad absurdum, inflating his original idea into incredible superlatives. Fairbanks is on his way to Sumatra to shoot tigers when his schooner yacht passes...
That the world is demoralized he thinks not altogether a bad sign. "Our epoch . . . believes itself more than all the rest, and at the same time feels that it is a beginning. What expression shall we find for it? Perhaps this one: superior to other times, inferior to itself. Strong...
Formidable Frau Tony Sender, 43, Reichstag Deputy and member of the Social Democratic party, is one of the best known women politicians in Germany. Recently an opponent referred to her in debate as Die Sexappealische Fräulein. Sex-appeal is a fighting word to Spinster Sender. She immediately sued...
In 1920 came Gorton-Pew's roughest times. Foreign contracts were cancelled and fish dropped. The company reported a big loss and its bankers shoved out Gen eral Manager Carroll, replacing him with efficiency experts. With a sad expression on his face he hung around the piers, re fused...