Word: impressible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Martin Gras was about to leave for Peru. President Castillo, himself this week planned to meet Bolivia's President General Enrique Peñaranda at the Bolivian border. But it was the Brazilian junket of General Justo, who wanted to fight the Axis, which was most likely to impress Argentina and South America...
...like jazz, even if you think Glenn Miller is the greatest thing on earth, it is worth your precious while to spend an evening listening to Russell. For PeeWee is a real character. Not an Artier Shaw who points his clarinet way up high to impress crowds, but a PeeWee Russell who leans way back and closes his eyes because he can play better that...
...Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Ciano, it is said, arranged a little stunt to impress U.S. Ambassador William Phillips, who was about to return to Washington to report on Italian conditions. While the Duce was receiving the Ambassador, Count Ciano rushed in with a cooked-up piece of good news: "Duce! Duce! Twenty-eight ships loaded with wheat have just arrived . . . our granaries are simply bursting. Where can we put all this wheat...
Only three weeks distant from the bitter air battles over Java, Air Corps Lieutenant Trenkle was one of four Air Officers to impress on 150 students in Emerson D last night the urgent need for a steady supply of officer material, especially for flying duty...
...next week. . . . Mike Levin, who started this column three scaut years ago, is busy as ever around New York, what with a new feature in "Orchestra World" and a labor of love helping Red Norvo under way with his new band. . . . Harry James and his band did not impress me too favorably at the Metropolitan last week. Helen Forrest sang nicely, without fancy gestures, either, but the band itself didn't ride on its various killer-dillers. There were plenty of brassy blasts, of course, but they failed to fascinate...