Word: express
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once when Mark Twain wanted to express the quintessence of complacency, he reached down into his grabbag of artful characterizations and pulled out one of his greatest: "The calm confidence of a Christian with four aces." Japanese statesmen wore just such a cocksure air last week. Their spiritual complacency (the sacred mission of creating a New Order) was reinforced with all the aces and most of the face cards in the Asiatic pack...
...coming closer all the time. Over the plains, around the swamps, through the cities, past Cracow, Lwow, Brest-Litovsk, into Galicia, down to the Polish Ukraine, hurried the approaching friends, grabbing the industrial region and the coal mines in passing, looking as big and as powerful as an express train seems to a motorist stalled in the middle of the track. Hammer and Steel put their heads together...
...Naylor, who predicted the war two years before it happened, said it would last approximately four years. He introduced astrology to London's press in 1930, now enjoys what is said to be the biggest private practice in England. This time Naylor, writing for the Sunday Express, was too cautious to foretell war or peace. But last week he gave his opinion of war's outcome: "It will end suddenly and for reasons no man can know or foresee. The centre of government will shift to Canada eventually...
...headline in London's Sunday Express. Datelining their dispatches "Somewhere in Surrey," or "on the Cambridgeshire-Northants border," correspondents reported that 1,000,000 city children were busy fishing, blackberrying, golfing, bathing, enjoying many another unaccustomed treat...
...Spring-Air Co. (mattresses) of Holland, Mich, informed its employes: "The name 'Spring-Air' . . . stands for buoyancy, for joyousness, for health and boundless, wholesome growth and happiness. Our products express these thoughts. For our own good, our words and thoughts should do so, too. Let's plan on Peace, think Peace, live Peace...