Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wise & Faithful." Sir Eric, as he and the Dictator talked, received an impact so powerful that next day New York Timesman Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. cabled from London: "Last night the most urgent kind of warning reached the British Government from wise, faithful Ambassador Drummond to the effect that Mussolini was convinced Britain intended to make war upon him and therefore had poured new troops into Libya"-i.e. opposite the British position in Egypt...
...most scholarly and minute analysis of the Dictator yet made, Dr. Finer reports: "He is certain of his star, certain that he cannot be assassinated until his work is accomplished, certain that Italy needs him, certain that his institutions are wholesome for Italy . . . certain that he cannot fail. . . . The impact of his personality on men, women and children far from the vicinity of Mussolini's physical presence is astounding. Far away, even to the uttermost confines of the kingdom, beyond the hills and fields and marshes separating them from Rome, even beyond the ocean, the charm works. A businesslike...
...qualities of simplicity and tenderness, in which the best French pictures have so often outclassed Hollywood, give these little scenes a dramatic impact which, by comparison, makes the collapse of Pompeii (see p. 52) a pin drop. Good shot: in the ring of faces around the white rabbit, a minute, snub-nosed Negro, speechless with approval...
Those three uniniated are the linemen Charlie Kessler and Jim Maser, and the fullback, Vernon Struck. All the others have felt the impact of the Army's artillery before, which means that for once the Crimson will not have to concede anything in experience...
...dramatic effect of Paths of Glory seems somehow to miss the full impact of What Price Glory? or Journey's End, it is probably due to a slight flaw in the matter of illusion. It is a little distracting to hear men dressed as French soldiers yearn for Paris and their native villages in honest New Yorkese. As the two most prominent of the condemned men, however, a pair of extremely credible performances are turned in by young Actor Myron McCormick, late of the Princeton Triangle Show, and oldtime Actor William Harrigan, commander of the 3rd Battalion...