Word: expressione
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Now when the average German thinks of the average Englishman he does not think of Mr. Baldwin in the very least. Still less does he think of Strube's Little Man. . . . He visualizes a tall, spare man, immaculately dressed in top hat and frock coat, wearing spats and an eyeglass...
Beneath Helen Jacobs' first wish to be a tennis player there must have been a furious hope to be like her famed neighbor. The irony of her success was that the more she became like Helen Wills the more dramatically she emphasized the differences between them. For Helen Wills Moody...
Sclafani went on: "The female yak is a delightful animal. She waits until the male gets through eating before she will touch food. The expression in her eyes while she watches the male eat is beautiful. . . . All the animals know me and talk to me in their own languages asking...
-Not only those who are concerned with the theatre but everyone who wants to preserve the American heritage of civil liberties will bitterly resent this arbitrary suppression of a play which has been widely acclaimed.'" That quotation from your article "AgitProp" in TIME, June 17 is an excellent expression...
Old Bailey's Hanging Judge was also believed last week to be the only one of His Majesty's judges who ever employed judicially that tart expression: "The answer is a lemon!"