Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...will enter competition for the editorial department of the daily. Candidates in this field usually write one editorial a day, which is submitted to the editor in charge for comment and advice. Harvard subjects form the basis of most CRIMSON editorials, but candidates will be given a change to express themselves on subjects which are of general interest to the college under-graduate...
...which the actors are all engaged in some form of nefarious and illegitimate enterprise, constantly flinging at each other such phrases as "Says you," "Is 'at so?", "Yeah?" It is the work of Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison who turned out a creditable thriller last season called Subway Express...
...torch" song is one in which the theme and lyric express the deep affection, often unappreciated, which the crooner bears for the object of his or her devotion. Such a song Ivy Stevens (Mayo Methot) sang for Howard Palmer (Reed Brown Jr.), women's wear drummer, one July night at a flashy roadhouse on the outskirts of Cincinnati. Howard was sitting behind a bower of chemically pink paper roses so Ivy did not see when he left, but she got the note he scribbled on the back of a menu saying that although they had been very happy together...
Last week a few U. S. citizens with sporting friends abroad were eating grouse -plump red Scotch grouse sent by express steamers and heralded by cables giving warning of their shipment. For a fortnight the shotguns that the Scotch call "double pipe scatter guns" had been popping on the moors. King George was there to get a little shooting before seeing his new granddaughter (see p. 21). John Pierpont Morgan was at Gannochy Lodge and Clarence Hungerford Mackay at Hunt-hill, Brechin. Bernard Baruch could not stay but Silkman Emil Stehli and Charles Steele of the House of Morgan were...
...tracks of the Central R. R. of New Jersey, dragged a piece of pork across their trail to prevent being followed by hounds, waited for a train to come by. A switch engine backed across the spikes, its crew removed them, preventing disastrous derailment of a Newark-New York express. In Louisville, Ky., small Charlie Bradshaw found a sack of paperhanger's paste powder, took it home, dumped it into his mother's flour can. Biscuits made from the flour caused Charlie, his parents, his brother to be violently ill. His 15-months-old sister was expected...