Word: expressione
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Few speakers could have held the attention of such an audience for an hour on such a discourse," Professor Whitehead remarked in an expression of appreciation. "The speaker is a thinker without a living peer."
"We are now passing from a period of individual to one of collective expression. . . . Today we are less insistent on playing solo parts, and begin to be content with playing one part in the general orchestra. . . ." During my recent sojourn in Mexico I found startling confirmation of my ideas. There...
After the American Legion convention in Detroit last month (TIME, Sept. 28, Oct. 5), Dr. Clarence True Wilson, goateed general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, made speeches in St. Joseph and Kansas City, Mo. Said he: "Legion conventions are planned ahead of time as drunken...
On a cold day just before Christmas in 1870, two actors went to Rev. William Tufnell Sabine, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Atonement at Madison Avenue & 28th Street in Manhattan. One of them (though Mr. Sabine did not recognize him) was the great Joseph Jefferson, who had...
"We often hear, or used to hear, the expression, 'He whistled to keep his courage up.' That's just it, except that there's more to the crude act of whistling than artificial affirmation of bravery.