Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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If you had walked down Market Street in San Francisco last Monday morning you would have had the uncanny impression that it was still Sunday. Even municipal streetcars, the last to halt, were in the barns, their operators at home, afraid to take them out. There were no taxicabs in...
The first paragraph of the advertisement in question was quoted only last Friday, June 15, in one of the London newspapers (either the Daily Express or the Evening Standard; sorry I can't recall which one), with the shocked editorial comment and facetious reference to the way they do...
This assurance was repeated by Italy's Minister to King Zog but Albanian Foreign Minister Jafer Gila, hopping mad, protested: "Only the immediate departure of the Italian fleet can remove the bad impression caused by so many warships!"
"Woodrow Wilson was a gallant lover, an ardent wooer. His anxiety to make a good impression was delightful. He seemed no more certain of success than any other man might and he exhausted all the tricks of this old trade. . . . The President had a private tele phone wire run from...
The Life of Vergie Winters (RKO). Vergie Winters (Ann Hardingj is another of the cinema's unhappy heroines in the same boat as Madelon Claudet, Mary Lane in Only Yesterday and Ray Schmidt in Back Street. Her marathon of discontent starts when she is 20 and shows no sign...