Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secondly, we should like to express some doubts as to the wisdom of siding openly with Bourguiba and against France...
...gossipists a field day. They variously reported that Philip gave the Queen a piece of jewelry designed by himself, a big bouquet of white carnations, a gleaming electric kettle that puckishly seemed to combine a private joke with their "tin" anniversary. Parlaying the secrecy, London's Sunday Express knowingly surmised that the royal family was shocked and dismayed when Princess Margaret skipped out for a theater party, failed to appear at the palace festivities until just before they ground to a midnight halt...
...Mass, one morning last week, the Quincy Patriot Ledger had to race twelve miles farther for the story than the dailies in nearby Boston. Nonetheless, the alert evening Ledger (slogan: "Cover the World and Don't Forget the South Shore") had its expert wrap-up of the story (EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKED ON BRIDGE IN MEDFORD; 2 KILLED, MANY INJURED) in readers' hands long before metropolitan papers got to the South Shore with the story...
Most of Verlaine's greatest poems (La Bonne Chanson, Sagesse, Romances sans paroles) express a medley of sensuality, longing and faith. Verlaine learned a "new" French-strong, vigorous and plain. He and Rimbaud broke down "the barrier between poet and reader by using French as it was then spoken"-not as courtiers of the past had spoken it. They changed the monotonous, end-of-line rhyme, throwing the stress not where elegance demanded it, but "where the sense lay." Where Verlaine used the old end rhyme, he made it run rather than halt-and how hauntingly and simply...
...City and Chicago. In four years, Hertz's operating revenues have risen from $28.7 million to 1957's expected $78 million, which will bring $6,000,000 in after-tax profits. Now that the 107-year-old company has the highly useful services of the 405 American Express offices, it can really step on the gas overseas. Says Hertz's Greenebaum: "Our goal is an annual volume of $15 million overseas in three years. By that time, we expect to make a profit on this of $1,250,000 a year...