Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undeterred by immunity, a reporter for the Los Angeles Herald and Express last week talked his way past guards at the gate. Next day the Herald and Express printed four columns of detail about roulette (10? a chip) and bingo (10? a card) in the consulate's shoddy rooms. An attendant was quoted: ". . . We don't have craps or the other games. Just bingo and the wheels. We could have craps, of course, but that would make it too much like a gambling joint...
Having read so much ridiculing Governor Dickinson of Michigan for his utterances, I am prompted to express my feelings. First, permit me to state that I am not a crusader or reformer. I am merely a medical practitioner in a college town of 4,500. It is of no special concern to me whether it be New York or Padooka-one fact is very obvious all about us-we as a nation are becoming extremely calloused, and as Damon Runyon so aptly put it in his column a few days ago, extremely sinful...
Sirela is founded on the mathematical basis that the seven syllables of the scale, plus a Spatari-added Bo, may be arranged into no less than 1,000,000 pronounceable combinations. These combinations are used to express not only single words, but complete thoughts. To these combinations at present there is no rhyme nor clue. They stand for what Carlo Spatari believes they ought to stand for. Originally he had thought of making them up so they could be sung, but that idea proved unmelodious...
Married. John William Maxwell Ait ken, 29, fast-flying elder son of Britain's No. 1 newspaper publisher, Lord Beaverbrook (London Daily Express)* himself publisher of the Sunday Express; anc Cynthia Monteith; in London. An officer in the auxiliary air force, Aitken left ; few hours after the wedding to join hi newly mobilized unit...
...Uncle Hans summed up a last desperate family hope when he anticipated that the cunning Americans would shear Ludwig's pelt, clip his horns. At 41, Bemelmans is a brilliant contradiction of family prophecy-a famed artist, author and illustrator of four children's classics* (Hansi, Quito Express et al.), and of two adult volumes (My War With the United States, Life Class) which rank with the most engaging of reminiscences. But Bemelmans is still a Katzenjammer kid. His fame, in fact, rests largely on the fact that he never outgrew his Katzenjammerism; it gives his drawings...