Word: impressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major General John Duncan, Commander of the British expeditionary forces at Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 7) shrewdly ordered, last week, a maneuver similar to that of the great Duke of York in the above nursery chanty. General Duncan saw that something must be done to impress the Northern Chinese in Shanghai and the Southern Chinese who are trying to capture it with the idea that Britain has a real army in China, will soon have 30,000 men at or near Shanghai, and means to protect her interests permanently.* How could all this be better said to Chinese than...
...second act you will hardly be able to wait until you reach the lobby to give your own special version of it. And when you go home (the play has threoacts), the left hind wheel of the trolley, which will be flat, will rhythmically impress that tune on your soul, if you have one, for ever and ever...
...attribute my success to the routine of life which I have followed. My mother used to impress upon me the value of a strict routine of life. When I was six years old I made my stage debut as a child toe dancer. This was a rather early start and meant months of hard work before. I was carefully trained for the ordeal. My stepfather and my sisters taught me to dance and I was hailed as one of those child wonders. However, I had to follow strict rules, even in the earlier travels of the Miller family...
...books and conversation impress sloop captains, who mention him to Governors, one of whom, the windbag of Pennsylvania, starts him off to England but fails to provide promised letters. The pushful youth suffers penury, for the sake of seeing Dr. Johnson's London, for 18 months. He returns to Philadelphia saddened by bad friends, broadened and a complete "extrovert," determined...
...good for them and satisfying to the audience. Such, however is not the case. The dignified atmosphere of the place stands out so clearly that to some of the more collegiate it must be painful. Perhaps the aristocratic ushers with a college education and baby blue tuxedoes so impress the student body that silence and respect are the only sufficient forms of applause...