Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...your mouth," ordered Dr. Barnard. "Go to hell and take your tools with you," croaked Willkie. Dr. Barnard looked at him a moment, said: "Personally, I don't give a damn. But that throat of yours right now is the only way some 20,000,000 Americans can express themselves. Lean back!" Willkie looked at the doctor, grinned, opened his mouth...
John L. Lewis once attempted to define the origin and nature of his power, his place in U. S. life. Said he in 1938, to the first constitutional convention of his C. I. O. : "After all I merely undertake to express and articulate in a public way the things that you say to me, the instructions that you impose upon me. ... If I fail to understand my instructions, if I fail to comprehend what you really mean in your resolves . . . my voice will be of no more value than the most humble citizen going about his obscure toil. . . . My strength...
...enemy planes still flew over the Isles each day but they flew so high, dropped light bombs so vaguely, that long-suffering London felt relatively relaxed despite raid alarms as numerous as ever. A German report that the shiny black glass show-building of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express was shattered, proved false. But the historic Middle Temple, shrine of the British bar, with its great oak table said to have been given by the first Queen Elizabeth, was smashed up badly. Most other new damage was sprinkled thinly among residential districts. Londoners felt cheerful enough to grouse about...
...pamphlet entitled "Vote for Peace," which will be distributed throughout the College today, the Browder Ford Club announced that although they were not Communists, they were "forced to the conclusion that only by voting for the Communist candidates can the American people express their true sentiments on these issues...
...Wake Up, Sluggards," headlined the Express. Observers began to suspect that under their grim, gritty exteriors, Britain's war leaders-no masochists such as the Schwarze Korps described-were beginning to look anxiously and beseechingly toward the U. S. There, airplane production was still small. (This winter probably less than 400 U. S. planes a month can be built for Britain, which wants thousands.) Thence, not even 25 old Flying Fortresses were yet forthcoming. In Boston, Mass., Sir Walter Thomas Layton of the Ministry of Supply spoke an appeal that was clearly a warning. Said...