Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is only one school; tutoring is for 5% of the college; either for students who have fallen behind, or "dumb Freshmen, who are pretty well weeded out by Sophomore year. No one, as far as I know, ever took a course and purposely overent or loafed with the express idea of going to the tutoring bureau," Landman stated...
...Masks-the ancient substitute for make-up-appeared in Greek tragedy almost from the beginning. Their purposes: to express a type, depersonalize the actor, permit the actor to appear in more than one part...
...Times and Telegraph & Morning Post obediently printed no word of the speech. The Daily Express carried the speech for one edition, then wavered and cut it out altogether in a second, in a third merely hinted at it. The Daily Mail first quoted Lord Stanhope's words, then withdrew the quotes but not the story. Only the Liberal News Chronicle decided to publish story and quotes. The news was a shock to the public, an alarming indication of how close the Government believed war might be and how unheralded its arrival...
...Lebrun received 506 of 904 votes. The opposition was not so much to popular President Lebrun as to Premier Edouard Daladier's policies. Principal opposition came from Communists and Socialists, who scattered their votes-in order to express their lively joy in the game of politics-among various minor candidates and even among some who were not candidates at all, such as ancient (82) Marshal Philippe Petain, recently appointed French Ambassador to Franco Spain (19 votes...
Three months ago convivial L. M. Parton, secretary of the Nocona Chamber of Commerce, conceived a publicity stunt. His idea: a 2,000-mile pony express race from his little (pop. 2,352) North Texas leather-manufacturing town to San Francisco, to tie Nocona to the tail of the Golden Gate International Exposition...