Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sleep-Davison Dalziel, 74, Baron Dalziel of Wooler. From Finland's icy mountains to Egypt's torrid sands, tired travelers snore peacefully, each night, in the sleeping cars of the great company of which he was president-La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Europeens.† Moreover Baron Dalziel was, up to the moment of his death in London last week, chairman of the British Pullman Car Co.-pioneers of such luxury services as the Pullman-Golden Arrow route between London and Paris...
...International Sleeping Car Company, operating through European express trains...
After a painstaking inspection of the city, Prime Minister Andrea Liaptcheff of Bulgaria officially reported that not one single building remained habitable. The famed Simplon-Orient Express, connecting Paris and Constantinople, could not traverse Bulgaria last week. Towns shaken down included Borisovgrad, Russof, Kavala, Komatine, Negotim and Gajecar...
Cities north of Washington are accustomed to elegant express trains carrying distinguished statesmen. Not until the Smith train entered Virginia did real crowds begin to appear on station platforms. At Charlottesville, though it was getting late, Candidate Smith went out on the back platform and made...
President McLaurin's method of attacking the A. & P. organization was the subtle way of innuendo. Said he: "It would not be accurate to state that the Atlantic & Pacific represents at this time a monopolistic control of retail food distribution, but we do undertake to express our opinion that the organization as now conducted, possesses the potentiality of a control of retail food distribution to such an extent as to threaten the best interests of the American public. Is Federal control of that organization in prospect? Will the conduct of chain stores generally be such within the next...