Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mr. Brian, who established a reputation in musical comedy and operetta in such productions as "Buddies," "No Nanette," "The Chocolate Soldier," more recently in "Merry Widow," is confronted with the somewhat difficult of portraying the unsuccessful small time trooper and of enunciating, as convincingly as possible, the trite old them...
In the decades that followed, through a series of adventures not always glorious, the young poet confirmed the first impression of Saint-Beuve. He wrote the loviest of romantic poems, and the most delightful parodies of romantic poems. He produced a series of plays which, with appropriate subservience to tradition...
"The story of our foreign loans is a sordid tale, grotesque and tragic. ... In the investigation there were disclosed certain ugly facts which enabled us to understand and resent what has been done to the investing American public ... a dazed people whose pockets have been picked. . . . The utterly unrestrained duping...
"It is unpardonable to ride without a hat, particularly in the finest Row in the world . . . where strangers watching will get a totally improper impression of British horsemanship. . . . Nothing looks prettier in the world on a woman than a bowler hat with a riding costume."
The earliest plates, 1850 to 1852, were daguerreotypes taken under the direction of William C. Bond, the original Director of the Observatory. The process was so slow that only the brightest stars would "take", and no impression could be made of the North Star, no matter how long the exposure...