Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dull would I be in feeling did I fail to express gratitude for this generous manifestation of friendship...
During the rush hour one morning last week in Manhattan, President Frank Hedley of Interborough Rapid Transit Co. boarded one of his own subway express trains at 14th Street like any other nickel-paying subway rider. As the train hurtled downtown, Mr. Hedley smelled smoke. About the train curled acrid yellow fumes. President Hedley did not need to be told something was seriously wrong. He at once took mastership of the situation. Shouldering his way through the pack of nervous passengers to the front car, he told the motorman to stop beside a local at the Bleecker Street station...
Last week King George had a dinner of fine plump red Scotch grouse shipped by express from Balmoral Castle, but many another grouse-loving Briton ate mutton or went hungry. On the morning of the Twelfth-opening date of the Scottish grouse season-a violent thunderstorm swept over the moors, leaving boggy ground and a heavy mist in its wake. Sportsmen standing ankle-deep in the sticky peat of shooting butts had no sooner begun popping at dimly seen grouse than another storm broke and drove them home. But not before a gamekeeper had been shot dead at Clonmannon. Growled...
Above his own signature on the most prominent page of his London Sunday Express, Baron Beaverbrook clarioned that Mr. Baldwin has no intention of accepting "the fair offers made by the Dominions...
...government run a railroad? Yet he may not have time to give an answer. For many a railroadman last week felt that Sir Henry's resignation may hurry what seems to be eventual, the unification of Canada's two great railroads whose passenger and freight cars, hotels, express services, and telegraph lines, compete from Montreal to Vancouver...