Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Dos Passos published a book on Spain, Rosinante to the Road Again, followed it five years later with one on his travels in the Near East, Orient Express. These random recollections of unconventional journeys were written in a glancing, impressionistic style, with characterizations of fellow travelers blending with offhand comments on politics and tag lines from overheard conversations...
...take several London papers and have been amused to see the way their writers used the TIME article as a peg on which to hang columns and columns about "Our Gracie." In the London Daily Express a four column analysis by James Agate is headed "IS GRACIE FIELDS COMMON?" The concluding words are, "She is common, vulgar, and low. Bless...
Ever since being reluctantly forced to recognize Adolf Hitler's annexation of Austria last fortnight, the State Department has been pressed by liberal and racial groups to think up a practical way to express the U. S. Government's disapproval. Last week. Secretary Cordell Hull thought he had found one, gave out a statement describing...
...Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Toledo Times and Blade Los Angeles Express, Milwaukee Sentinel, Newark Star-Eagle, Brooklyn Standard-Union, Duluth Herald and News-Tribune...
...beauties of this work are not generally known. Despite a mediocre libretto by Nahum Tate (poet-laureate of England at the time) Purcell has a real sense of dramatic pace, and his themes admirably express the varying moods of his characters...