Word: impressible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn Dodgers offered a last trial to their onetime star pitcher, Arthur C. ("Dazzy") Vance who, now 42, had just been released by the St. Louis Cardinals. Wearing a pair of trousers much too short for him, Vance showed enough of his oldtime speed in practice to impress Manager Casey Stengel, became sure of a job when, two days later, the Dodgers' current pitching ace, Van Lingle Mungo, strained a muscle in his shoulder...
...choice for the job was a huge success. The Canadian Commons cheered the news with a will. Britain hoped George V would make his man a peer before John Buchan goes to Canada in the early autumn; Canadians fervently prayed he would not. Canadian politicians promptly tried to impress one another with the fact that they had read Buchan's books and Canadian bookstores advertised the volumes they had in stock. Only the loyal Toronto Daily Star bridled: "It may be a little unseemly to be discussing so approvingly the selection of the next Governor-General in the presence...
...signed. Last week in Berlin the French Ambassador was received with studied discourtesy by German Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath when he called to protest. On a similar errand the Italian Ambassador was received with the deference Il Duce demands, gets. Considering that words are not enough to impress Hitler, Mussolini this week treated Nazidom to the spectacle of an Italian mobilization. Not calling it by that name, II Duce sent pink mobilization cards out in quantities sufficient to put some 1,000,000 soldiers and militia under arms by April...
Black Pit (by Albert Maltz; Theatre Union, producer). The didactic purposes of the Theatre Union, a theatrical little Red schoolhouse near Union Square, are two: 1) to reveal to the laity how the other half lives by staging exciting instances of social injustice; 2) to impress some of the broader party policies on Communist comrades by dramatic examples. Stevedore was supposed to demonstrate that black and white workers should and could present a united front. Sailors of Cattaro emphasized the need of centralized direction in Communist organization. Black Pit, another class drama, preaches the need for stern sacrifices...
Academician Shinn, busy with a play he is trying to write and with a one-man show of his paintings in another Manhattan gallery (TIME, March 11), did not bother to send a picture to this year's Academy. Nor did his election impress...