Word: expressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President telegraphed to San Francisco, where a dinner was being given by the Japan Society of America to Tsuneo Matsudaira, arriving Japanese Ambassador, saying: "I wish you would express my cordial welcome...
Senator Morris (Progressive Republican): "I have an opinion and a strong one, but I do not care to express...
Senator Bruce (Democrat): "I shall have to see a little more of Vice President Dawes before I express an opinion as to whether he has the skill and address to induce the Senate to break with its past. The only statement that I can hazard about him at this time is that he evidently is a 'character...
...offer condolences?" and quotes the Prague Tageblatt as saying: "One would think that Emperor Wilhelm would today somehow feel himself still connected with the fate of the German people and would join in the mourning when that Nation is overtaken by a loss for which Frenchmen and Englishmen express their sympathy. The Governments of Paris and London have condoled, but the German at Doom remains silent...
...roll'; the editors of the Home News suggested "poll," "extol," "dole," "cajole," "condole," etc., carefully explaining that the first meant the head; the second, to praise in highest terms; the third, to give in small quantities; the fourth, to impose on by flattery or delusive promises; the fifth, to express sympathy, etc. The Graphic limerick rhymed with "stew" and "chew"; the Home News offered "barbecue" which, they said, is "an animal, roasted whole"; "phew,"?"an expression of disgust or surprise," they made clear; "eschew," which means to "avoid" or "shun," the editors of the Home News told the public...