Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson's call for a concerted boycott or blockade or cram parlors; there is no need to invoke sacrifices for a noble cause. A cool-headed, pragmatic consideration of facts should now prove entirely sufficient to convince even the most hardboiled loafer of the inadvisability of acquiring per express a canned Harvard education...
...mood of the British people is one of patient determination to win the war. Underlying it are many other contributing moods held by varying classes and factions. The free people of the United Kingdom last week found significant spokesmen to express three of their varying moods as World War II entered its fourth month...
Violinist Jascha Heifetz suggested that U. S. concert audiences should hiss whenever they feel like it: "American audiences are too standardized . . . too timid to express their real opinion of an artist...
...still had any difficulty in speaking English, vivacious Simone exclaimed: "Oh, yes! It is terribly hard for me to speak English all the time. When I am on the stage I have trouble because I often accent the wrong words. I think in French, you see, and try to express the same feelings in English, and sometimes I emphasize the wrong thing. I am so glad when I find someone who can talk to me in French...
Jonah Barrington, whimsical, curly-laired young radio columnist of the London Daily Express, gave him the name early in the war. Barrington's resourceful notion was that, by daily and well-aimed ridicule, this No. 1 Nazi radio propagandist might be turned into: 1) high comedy, 2) good copy for the Express...