Word: expressione
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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No picker and chooser of ways and means, he turns a neat trick on a bunch of Chinese by arranging to ferry them over from Cuba to the Keys, accepts their money, then kills their leader and abandons the rest. Then his luck turns bad. A flier at rum-running...
George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart wrote the book; Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart wrote the songs. Nevertheless, the combination seems sadly uninspired. "Of Thee I Sing" should have remained a final expression; "I'd Rather Be Right" has very little to add to the former's artistic trenchaney. The...
However, the records on "spittin' image" should certainly be kept straight. I don't think that the expression has anything to do with saliva.
¶ When George Bernard Shaw told her that tennis should be played by nude young women in the long grass of the meadows, she "tried not to let a flicker of expression cross my face."
But the group, and indeed the whole army, had a spirit that for Sommerneld made up for deficiencies. Once, on a routemarch, they passed a column coming back from the front. "They were utterly worn out, unshaven, filthy, dressed in thin, bleached and tattered overalls, mostly wearing worn-out rope...