Word: expressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon indulgent Anglo-Saxons explained that in this special connection "madame" has become de facto an English word, and that the Committee knew of no other sufficiently polite English word to express its meaning...
George Antheil believes himself on the track of such a creation. His new instrument is the percussion symphony, employing ten pianos, one mechanical piano, xylophones, airplane propeller, wind machines, electric machines, bells- but no strings, brasses, woodwinds or reeds. He wants to express America, Africa, steel. While his Slavic blue eyes grow round with vision, he will assure the interviewer that to him a good Ford engine seems more beautiful than a mediocre painting...
...well as the unfavorably disposed, were whisked out of repose into strange embarrassments. The "Trenton Tough" thereupon faced his sustaining tone in the other direction, proceeded to stir the audience almost to apoplexy with sound alone. He says: "I have tried [in the "Ballet Mécanique"] to express America's tremendous power and energy without writing it in terms of jazz." Composer Antheil, first to propagate a serious appreciation of jazz in Germany, believes it is now on the wane, in form, not in spirit. Yet his favorite composers are Beethoven and Handel...
...said I: 'I went before the people of my state and asked them to elect me to a position paying $7,500 a year. They elected me, and I do not feel that I could accept an increase in good faith without giving them an opportunity to express themselves...
...There is no room in TIME for the second-rate, the inconsequential. The following new books are advertised here by their publishers only at the express invitation of TIME's Book Editor. Not all the good books are here advertised; but all the books here advertised are good...