Word: impressed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Small dapper Congressman William I. Sirovich of New York is one of the best showmen in the House of Representatives. An M. D., he has been known to line up a row of grisly exhibits across the Speaker's rostrum to impress upon his colleagues the evils of narcotics. He is the author of Ten Commandments to End the Depression. He is also the author of three plays. To the assistance of other playwrights and other showmen Congressman Sirovich rode full tilt last week...
...Germany by yet more furious efforts. Lest German Communists grow discouraged and be taken in by the pre tensions of Enemy Hitler who already talks as if he were sure to become Ger man Chancellor. Exile Trotsky warned: "In every war the enemy tries to exaggerate its strength to impress the enemy. Hitler is just as good a braggart as Napoleon was. but his pretensions will be come true only the minute that the proletariat takes faith in them." Orating two days later to his Fascist followers at Munich, Leader Hitler flayed as "tools of Bolshevism" the Roman Catholics...
...coffee was delicious, boys!" exclaimed Democratic Speaker John Nance Garner one morning last week as he and ten other important Congressmen came away from a White House breakfast with the President Mr. Hoover had summoned Democrats and Republicans alike to impress upon them the urgency of quick Congressional action on relief legislation (see p. 6). A very black picture of Central Europe's finances was also painted, but the President pledged all his guests to secrecy as to the breakfast conference. That explained why Speaker Garner could only laud the meal as he hopped into a new White House...
...Baron von Dueben: "We implored her not to go to the police. We tried to impress on her that the death constituted something between herself, her mother...
...prologue in a Parisian cafe fails somehow to impress one with the ability of either actors or author; Miss Rachel Crothers does not show her hand until the second act. There have been innumerable drunk scenes paraded before the long-suffering theatre-goer, but their authors have rarely succeeded in the measure with which Miss Crothers does in this particular bit. Geoffrey Wardwell and Jay Fassett contribute remarkable performances as their share in this scene, and the author supplied them with excellent material, studded with laugh producing lines...