Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pasty or crudely red faces, bulging shiny foreheads . . . rolling chins, fat wrists . . . [these] women are one of the greatest comments on feminine emancipation ever made." Thus, recently, did a presumably emancipated Londoner write to the London Express describing the subjects of portraits by famed Dutch artists, portraits which had appeared in the Royal Academy's great exhibition of Dutch art (TIME...
...White Mountain Express stopped one day last week at Northampton, Mass., to take aboard a sandy-haired man carrying a small black bag marked C. C. He took a seat in the Pullman drawing room, leaving the door open. School girls raced through the car, peeked in at him, giggled. He shut the door...
...Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank−had hung doggedly to $332,000,000 as the greatest sum the Reich could possibly pay. Last week, however, he appeared so struck by the figure $420,000,000 that, clapping on a Hamburg hat and greatcoat, he caught the Nord Express for Germany...
...arrived. In the Fatherland, where such an assemblage represents the colossal vested interests of a score of banking and industrial trusts, it does not take long to sound out the opinions of ''big business." Therefore after only the briefest conference, "Iron Man" Hjalmar Schacht boarded the Nord Express for Paris, appearing to be, as usual, somewhat less gracious and communicative than a snapping turtle...
This jolly song was heard every night last week by every Briton who tuned in on the London Daily Express's patriotic Egg Hour. Thus one of the Empire's great newspapers rallied to Her Majesty the Queen-Empress who recently signed an order in council (TIME, Feb. 25) decreeing that...