Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayors, it would seem, are definitely misleading persons. When the mayors of 84 towns and cities in Massachusetts met in Boston last Saturday and tried to be coherent on the matter of the $100,000,000 public works program sponsored by Governor-elect James M. Curley, the impression they gave...
The Firebird (Warner) is a routine Viennese boudoir-&Tpistol mystery which leaves the vague impression that a casual murder may be a fine, broadening influence on a woman. A conceited actor (Ricardo Cortez), who is fond of playing Stravinsky's blood-tingling Firebird, is found shot dead in his...
A few years ago Columbia University inaugurated a new type of course, the two year survey. Several such courses--one called "Contemporary Civilization" and another listed as a "Science Survey," for example--have been taken by many students with very satisfactory results. At Harvard, while there are double courses such...
If there is one factor in Hilton's novels which justifies the belief that he gives promise of writing great faction, it is that he penetrates the level of superficiality that restricts so many modern writers. In "Lost Horizon," for example, through the eyes of the central character, Conway, one...
Sir John then dwelt on the advantage to the State of having private capital assume the risk of maintaining in peacetime arsenals on which the State's very existence depends in time of war. When Major Attlee compared the armament traffic to the whiteslave traffic and insisted that at...