Word: impressible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tributes of the week: Haile Selassie got the Wendell L. Willkie Memorial Award from the African Academy of Arts and Research (Manhattan) for his "contribution to international peace and good will." Recalled the chairman of the award committee: the in-&-out Emperor had long ago done his best to "impress 52 nations with the need of stopping aggression...
...week scholarly, debonair Dr. Wei delivered the last of the six Hewett Lectures, founded in 1923 to provide speakers on "the truths of Christianity" to Union, Andover-Newton, and Episcopal Theological Seminaries. After highlighting the background of Chinese culture, he went on in his hesitant, pleasantly gurgling English to impress his students with the importance of adapting organized Christianity to Chinese usages...
...Labor Day "Dutch" Kindelberger got an idea. He was sitting on his front porch leafing through aviation magazines. The light planes he saw did not impress him, and he decided then & there to build one himself. He sketched his idea on the back of an envelope and turned it over to his engineers. They whipped up a prototype in time to give it to the boss as a Christmas present...
...Green Years (MGM) is one of those genteel and interminable stories of "character," "conflict" and "faith" which invariably impress lower-middle-brows as "big," "heartwarming" and, above all, "human...
...Marcel Petiot's 63 murders did not impress the atrocity-hardened French. But they were impressed by his agile defense and sheer gall last week in a trial in which his condemnation had seemed certain. Ceiling-high rows of victims' valises (containing 97 petticoats, 57 pairs of socks, and 97 shirts) failed to shake Petiot. Nor was he perturbed during the court's visit to his fashionable Paris home and ex-slaughter house, where they found a strange conglomeration of expensive Louis XVI furniture, human bones, and 600 volumes of murder mysteries...