Word: impressible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both you and President Lowell, if your reasons are alike, impress reasonable minds as having built up a formidable argument at the expense of clear duty and justice. It is not wholly a formidable case, at that. The generality with which your editorial states that funds raised in such a way would be negligible in comparison with the evil worked on administrative policy, seems to indicate a trifle of uncertainty, of lack of self-conviction, on your own part. I do not like to see either you or President Lowell practice intellectual acrobatics, or, what is worse, fall back...
Well-beloved, well-hated, "Tommy Arkle" wore garish clothes, big rings, liked to be told that he was the best dressed man on the campus, glowered quizzically over his spectacles as he talked with his students. Quietly, firmly he made his impress upon Illinois, abolishing naughty fraternities (Kappa Beta Phi, Theta Nu Epsilon), fraternity "hell week," freshman hazing, student ownership of automobiles. He is fond of proper fraternity life, interested especially in his own Alpha Tau Omega. Like Edward, Prince of Wales an accomplished fancy-worker, he knit sweaters for soldiers during the World War, has lately turned his attention...
Because he believed it would impress the reader, Publisher George T. Delacort Jr. had printed on Ballyhoo's cover: "Edited by Norman Anthony, former editor of Life and Judge." Thus did Editor Anthony trade upon the very reputation he was bitterly attacking. He was discharged by Life, is suing for alleged breach of contract...
Even a casual and infrequent perusal of the daily press cannot fail to impress upon the average citizen that his country, a world leader in so many lines of endeavor, must at the same time own to preeminence in the rougher arts of hijacking, racketeering, municipal corruption, and homicide. Headlines keep us in touch with a gangster here entering a hospital to recuperate after a brush with a few other thugs, or with another resisting with lead the intrusion of some scores of New York police into his apartment. And the past year has seen an unusually large number...
...impossible to take the feature, Young Sinners, seriously. Nor would it be desirable. Purporting, as it does, to display the futility of existence as existed by modern youths and maids it makes out a very pretty case. Many more feet of film than is necessary are used to impress that the jennesse doer of today waste both time and money in parties a la whoopee. These sequences are unduly exaggerated, and for one who is spending his youth at present hardly convince of verisimilitude. But sense the point is made, the period of rehabilitation is entered and the story moves...