Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mata Hari (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One of the legends about Mata Hari, a Parisian cabaret dancer who was executed for espionage during the War, says that she was unable to break herself of the habit of taking off her clothes at crucial moments and was therefore naked when she faced...
Thoroughly befuddled were such correspondents as supposed Andre Tardieu to be roughly ten times as big a man as Pierre Laval. One cabled: "The Tardieu Cabinet has been reformed with Laval as Premier." Others assumed that Protégé Laval would dance inevitably to Patron Briand's tunes. Scarcely anyone realized...
Straight through 1931, while other Premiers or Presidents hesitated, wavered and in some cases fell, Pierre Laval gave month after month the consistent impression that he and his Government were working, are working:
Opening in May the French Colonial Exposition proved phenomenally successful in a bad year, strengthened the "impression" that the Laval Cabinet was "working."
Last week the Christian Century made further comment. The impression on the audience "is that of trains passing each other at high speed in opposite directions on parallel tracks. The real issues are not joined at all between Catholic and Protestant, between Christian and Jew, or between believer and agnostic...