Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...woman's life is always ruled by love, for her children or for a man," feature- articled Signor Benito Mussolini in the London Daily Express. Meanwhile last week the Church of St. Joseph in Rome was swathed in bunting and hung with wreaths for the wedding of the Dictator's daughter Edda. Her man is sleek Galeazzo Ciano, son of the Minister of Communications. She can be sleek, prefers to be careless, daredevilish. can drive a car down a narrow street at 70 m. p. h. with as much immunity from Death as her father...
...relation which the events of Hotel Universe bear to reality is genuine but insufficiently obvious for the purposes of drama. Moreover, the brilliantly perceived perplexities of the preciously unhappy subjects are frequently made ridiculous by the fact that it was only possible for Author Barry to express them in the cliches that dramateurs have been taught to find funny when issuing from the mouths of tired businessmen or sophomores in college. Nor has the cast of Hotel Universe, with the exceptions of Katherine Alexander as Ann Field, Glenn Anders as Pat Farley, Ruth Gordon as Lily Malone and Phyllis Povah...
Charleston, leisurely, unprogressive, socially high-headed, remains today an antique among U. S. cities. The Atlantic Coast Line's best Florida trains skip Charleston; likewise Clyde Steamship Co.'s New York-Florida express boats. Its business men lunch at 2:30, return to work at 4, if at all. Many contend, visitors as well as citizens, that it is the most civilized city...
There is on record only one unfavorable remark by "Popsy" Welch about another human being. Years ago he was told of a highly disparaging remark made about his colleague Dr. Osler by a Continental scientist. A few years later Dr. Welch was asked to express an opinion about the detractor. For a long time he hesitated, then mumbled in a hesitating voice that he must be "a terrible person...
...SUBWAY EXPRESS-Murder in motion...