Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never perhaps had a British Foreign Secretary departed amid greater misgiving. If Sir John triumphed, he would deserve double acclaim, for he was considered last week to have pretty well bungled things in advance. In the House of Commons, where he had dallied persistently last week, refusing invitations to confer...
Gutturals & Magnetism. Always the basis of Adolf Hitler's strategy is surprise. He let Sir John and Captain Eden go to bed in the Hotel Adlon, sleep, arise and breakfast under the impression that they would lay the basis for negotiation in a quiet morning at the German Foreign...
That Sir John of all Britons should handshake Herr Hitler was what most infuriated Frenchmen. They are resigned to "perfidious Albion" in the traditional role of Justice, upholding Europe's balance of power-with the British Lion couchant on the fulcrum. But even by his closest friends Sir John...
The legend that Nelson Eddy learned operatic arias from listening to phonograph records is only partly true. His first teacher, David Scull Bispham, schooled him for one year before he made his first stage appearance at a Philadelphia benefit show in 1922. He sang for the Savoy Opera Company, Philadelphia...
Wherever Louis Wiley went he made acquaintances by the score, friends by the dozen. He was passionately proud of his acquaintance with celebrities. Whoever saw him once, never forgot him. His ingratiating personality made a sharp first impression; his compelling personality made the impression permanent. Like many a self-made...