Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...wanted in Chicago, ordered him to get out, threatened him with arrest on sight "like any common hoodlum.'' Capone, distressed, insisted he had legal rights "like any other citizen." At the Hotel Lexington he opened "business headquarters." At 3 a.m. a reporter for the London Daily Express called him on the transoceanic telephone for an interview but central could not supply Capone's private number. To newsmen Capone carefully explained that his name is pronounced in two syllables (Capone...
Because his army is too famished and ill-equipped to fight the Irish, Essex returns to England against the Queen's express command. It is a characteristic, headstrong action; she slaps his face. To no avail does he protest his former braveries and services; the Queen scourges him with words. Outraged, he attempts to lead the people of London in revolt, is arrested, tried, sentenced to the block...
...preface our stand in this and following edits upon the statement that no college daily has upon its staff men sufficiently informed of the ins and outs of the question to do more than express an opinion qualified by admitted ignorance upon certain portions of the evidence. Such an opinion is worth no more than the judgment of the men who form it and can be accepted for no more, no less. We realize that admitted ignorance has a tendency to diminish the value of expression in the eyes of those who prefer to be told in positive terms what...
...poll of campus sentiment toward prohibition conducted properly may do no good, but at its worst can do no harm. The Daily Student, however, will not attempt a poll on this campus unless the editors are assured that their fellow students desire to express an opinion on this great problem. --Indiana Daily Student...
Many and potent are the stories of the "Caterpillars." In 1919, the blimp Wingfoot Express flew over Chicago on a good-will tour of inspection. Directly over the business section, one of her motors backfired, flames licked open the hydrogen-filled bag. In an instant, the peaceful scene changed to a holocaust. Four of the five passengers jumped with parachutes. The fifth, his harness tangled, fumbled and fumbled with it as the white-hot wreckage carried him to death. The flames ignited the parachute of one of the jumpers. He dropped straight to destruction. The other three landed. One died...