Word: expressione
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For this broad-minded action, the Fogg won praise from the Office of Museums of the League of Nations and the following genuine, if a bit confused expression of gratitude in a letter from the Director of the Museo Arqueologico Nacional de Madrid:
The clue to British censorship is that it tries to keep people from thinking about what might upset them. About things normally censorable it is far more tolerant than Will H. Hays. The British Board of Film Censors objects to scenes showing mental disorders, the preliminaries to childbirth, drunken women...
"The modern election," he continued, "is a sincere expression of insincerity. The Teachers' Oath, for example, is the most colossal farce. An honest man is not honest if he goes about telling people he is; furthermore, if any one really wanted to subvert the government, he would take the oath...
His portraits are notable for the expression which he put into them. Several are of his wife, Saskia, who died in 1642. His landscapes show a grace uncommon to most etchings, especially in the trees and clouds. It is perhaps due to this experience in nature that he succeeded in...
Most concrete expression of Mr. Rockefeller's unsectarian liberalism is Manhattan's large, Gothic Riverside Church, a place of worship for "all the disciples of Jesus," which he built for $4,000,000 and in which he installed Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. No less monumental was the...