Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...drinks no spirits, eats no meat. Sir Stafford is professionally a brilliant radical lawyer, privately "Red Squire" of the Cotswolds. He was the Labor Party's best mouthpiece until they expelled him in 1939 because he wanted to form a Labor Front. At that time the London Daily Express said that by his expulsion the Party was "blowing its brains out." In Russia, Sir Stafford will have done the Empire yeoman service if he can get what he hopes to get: 1) a trade agreement; 2) a military alliance-both with something more than milk teeth...
...shouting about Frenchman Simenon in U. S. mystery circles is well justified by these two novelettes. Liberty Bar finds Inspector Maigret at Antibes, in the curious business of Madame Jaja, Sylvie the tart and dead Mr. Brown. In The Madman of Bergerac, Maigret jumps off the careening Paris-Bordeaux express, is promptly shot. Convalescing in a provincial town, he mixes into the local murders and scandals, which are something for a town that size. Refreshing stories, very French...
...Advocate" (available within a week), contains illustrations by Howard Turner which, in certain cases, excel the characteristic finesse which his past performances have led us to expect. His drawing for "The Mother" exemplifies Turner's economy of line in relation to the idea which he desires to express. He manages, fully and with apparent case, to convey the implications and framework of the story for which his illustration is created, without confusing the reader. Turner shows imagination, a sense of coherence, and an intelligent suppression of detail in his work...
...Robert A. Taft, or condemn in any way the social aims of the New Deal. The statement that the New Deal must be scrapped because of the dangers of its foreign policy was not intended, though the implication was mistakenly made. The purpose of the editorial was to express the hope that issues of foreign policy will be clearly drawn in the coming campaign...
...Hearst of Britain" whose London Daily Express has the largest circulation of any paper in English...