Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Himalayan Blunder." Since the whole ill-starred affair seems to have sprung from the blundering brain of Sir Austen Chamberlain, the duty of flaying him may properly be left to the press of his own country. Last week the Daily Express, an independent paper with strong leanings toward Sir Austen's own party (Conservative) said: "There is hardly a line in this long series of telegrams and despatches that does not betray a naive misunderstanding of all outside opinion and psychology such as Germany herself hardly surpassed in the days...
Nearly every U. S. citizen knows the name of the super-famed crack express train which plys between New York and Chicago. Similarly every smart European knows the Orient Express, famed Paris-to-Bucharest flyer. Last week this train de luxe sped Parisward from Bucharest, Rumania with shrieking whistle, tolling bell, toward Death...
When the cream and chocolate Golden Arrow Express glided out of Paris, one noontime last week, a certain smooth-shaven, starched-collared, quietly dressed U. S. passenger passed unnoticed among many another en route to London. As he worked rapidly through a neat sheaf of papers, the traveler looked much like other graduates of Rutgers, other Baptists, other natives of Bloomfield, N. J. His choice of viands at luncheon was to eschew a la carte dishes and accept the table d'hote offered. Fellow passengers continued unconscious that they were actually traveling on the same train with the Agent...
...graduate of the Military Academy I wish to express my appreciation for the hospitality shown the Cadets Saturday. Your West Point number of the CRIMSON was in itself a warm welcome, though but one of many manifestations of interest and courtesy on the part of Harvard...
...received with his majority, William Averell Harriman proceeded to have a good time in the shipping industry. This, he asserted to be ". . . the most important matter connected with the growth and well-being of the United States. . . ." Besides shipping, his financial attachments include railroads, banking, the American Railway Express Co., Wright Aeronautical Corporation, the American Russian Chamber of Commerce. All of these he regards seriously though he speaks of them less frequently and less pompously than of his boating. In fact, William Averell Harriman is serious about almost everything he does. He is vigilant over a great boys' club...