Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from increasing, the circulation of the Charleston Record soon dropped to zero, for the simple reason that it ceased to appear. Editor Gething explained that there had been a mechanical breakdown. Last week it became known that South Carolina's Governor Blackwood, in order to express the hospitable sentiments of his State, had made Edward F. Hutton a Lieutenant Colonel on his staff...
...Peiping bland Japanese Charge d'Affaires S. Nakayama was asked flatly why Japan seized Shanhaikwan. "This deplorable frontier clash," said he in English, "arose from the long-pent desire of our Japanese frontier garrison to see active service and to 'spank,' if I may so express myself, the Chinese troops whom they had monotonously faced for 16 months...
...little ones. Last week he sharply curbed the few Italian capitalists who have figured out ways to beat Depression and are still making fairly fat profits. Through the docile Chamber and Senate, // Duce pushed a law barring private capitalists from enlarging their plants or building new ones without express permission from the State...
...hear (TIME, June i, 1931). The Governors carried this policy a step further last month by presenting a radio feature which they felt not the general public but their fellow politicians ought to hear: a speech by Caricaturist David Low of the London Evening Standard, with the Daily Express's Leslie ("Jack") Strube (pronounced Strooby), the ablest of present day British newspaper cartoonists. Excerpts...
...what people will be wanting when they are through wanting what they are wanting now." He feels there is still too much of the horseless carriage about automobiles but would blame it on the public's demands rather than on any engineering deficiency. He visions "a great express highway traversing the continent and carrying an almost fabulous stream of traffic, travelling well over a mile a minute." the cars of that not too distant future looking "no more like our cars of today than our latest models resemble those...