Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Vagabond has always held the conventional beliefs about Russia that one culls from the Stygian gloom of Chekov or Tolstoi. Russian peasants for the Vagabond are a half mad lot. He sees them as a race of men who in one hand hold a knife over the head of...
Of course there is a great deal more that might be said about this little piece, which so effectively combines a farcical love story with a great deal of satire touching, all in all, a rather wide variety of subjects. High society is gently lifted to a prominent positions on...
After the first year, in which his circulation commissions reached as high as $23,000 in a single month, Brisbane changed to a salary basis of $50,000 a year, "which was considered a good salary in those days. It would be small now." Contrary to a widespread impression, he...
Under Art for March 23, you give out the impression that Henry Adams and John La Farge spent a hectic interval on Tahiti dodging Gloomy Paul Gauguin when as a matter of fact, to Paul they were Western trash and the last creatures in the world with whom he would...
Like all other chiefs of state, President Hoover receives influential men of business unofficially and without formal appointment to hear their private reports on industrial conditions. Of late these callers have been confiding to the President their difficulties in maintaining his wage scale while commodity prices were falling. Outside the...