Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"When I myself hear the word 'Englishman,' the instinctive portrait evoked is that, I regret to say, of Strube's Little Man [see cut].* I see a small, kindly, bewildered, modest, obstinate, and very lovable little person. . . . Upon this first impression a more noble presentation imposes itself, and the contours...
In 1887 she was Maria Metten, daughter of the Chief of Police of Namur, Belgium. A mezzo-soprano, she sang in church choirs and local concerts, yearned to be an opera singer. But Bourgeois Papa Metten would have no truck with such notions. When Daughter Maria got a bit in...
Back in London Mr. Savage, bereft of job and money, disappeared forever. Never much of a factor in his wife's accounts of their life, this good Britisher lost what remained of his identity when the former Maria Metten took to pronouncing their name as if it were French...
The first paragraph of your article on the A. A. U. P. and the University of Oregon (TIME, June 10, p. 46) gives a wholly unjust impression of a very able administrator when it says that Dr. W. J. Kerr was found "totally incapable of educational leadership." The Committee on...
"The companies examined were hand-picked and represent about 41% of the holding companies and 5½% of the operating companies. Particular companies so selected were generally known to the industry as examples of what a public utility holding company should not be. This is best attested by the great...