Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lenahan '50, undergraduate President of Pi Eta, said last night that "the record of liberality of Pi Eta has always spoken for itself" and that the letter of one man cannot be taken to express the opinion of an entire organization...
...home, he weighed only 80 pounds. Now married and heavier, quick-humored Guido is delighted with his chance to work with the NBC Symphony, though still somewhat bashful about his performance. Said he last week: "With this orchestra, there is no impassable level. If I could only express myself in English, I think I could get more from them...
...either by tears or jeers. Henceforth, it voted, all high-school students will sign a pledge against joining a fraternity or sorority. If they refuse, they will still be able to attend classes, but they will be barred from all extracurricular activities. A few days later, the San Antonio Express denounced the ban as violating "the rights of privacy and assembly." Violation or not, San Antonio's school board was not alone last week. Other large Texas cities that have decreed similar bans: Dallas and Houston...
...their books with a bow to Mr. Smith and Mrs. Brown, without whose patience and generosity this book would never . . . etc., etc. Hungarian Count Carl Lonyay, who was brought up a cavalryman in the reign of Franz Joseph of Austria, includes a jab of the rowel: "I wish to express my admiration for the courage of those who thrust upon me their uninvited advice on a subject of which they had no knowledge, and which ... I avoided accepting...
...criteria," says 40-year-old Artist Osbert Lancaster, the urbanely acid political cartoonist of London's Daily Express, "remain firmly Anglo-Saxon . . . [My] standards of judgment are always those of an Anglican graduate of Oxford with a taste for architecture, turned cartoonist, approaching middle age and living in Kensington...