Word: expressione
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only two errors annoy me personally. I never said anywhere that people are going nuts on irradiation. Maybe they are, but I never used this inelegant expression.
Gifted with extraordinary technical ability, Pablo Picasso is a painter who has found drawing too easy. He can imitate anyone, which is perhaps the reason why he has become the most obscure, the most scientific of modern artists. In 1900, when he first settled in Paris, he painted gypsies, vagabonds...
In TIME, June 8, under "Tornado v. Train," you tell of the accident to the Great Northern's Empire Builder, where said Builder was dumped over on its side by the tornado, and you use the expression "a wreck unique in U. S. rail-roading."
Pope Pius had abandoned his demands for "apology," said the State. Yes, retorted the Church, but His Holiness still demanded "reassuring words." He has had our expression of "regret"' countered the State. But that was not "reassuring," objected the Church. Comic was a discovery at the Italian Foreign Office that...
Learning that Philanthropist & Mrs. Edward Stephen Harkness were staying at Claridge's Hotel, London, Their Majesties George V & Queen Mary hastened to send them a message. Next day, at the top of the Court Circular, high above the social arrangements of dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, barons, appeared this item: ''Mr...