Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked for his impression of the conferences between Harvard and Columbia, he said, "Harvard draws more from various parts of the country, but they all come for a general purpose--what Harvard stands for in their minds. Columbia attracts men who are interested more in some particular thing. I think...
Because every President must have able and loyal aides, President Hoover in 1929 gathered around him a group of men he called "new patriots," because they gave up good private jobs for Federal service. Chairman Alexander Legge of the Farm Board was the shining example. But before long the supply...
That is true, so far as it goes, but the impression given is untruthful and unfair to General Butler. He placed Col. Williams under arrest with great reluctance, under orders from his, Butler's, commanding officer. The true story is contained in detail in the enclosed clipping from the...
Your article, and the appellation "Chaser Michel," conveys the idea that Mr. Michel's work has been only that of a solicitor of cases. This is not correct and it does a gross injustice to a man whose entire work has been that of legal research, briefing and trial...
Unless you are a student of French literature you probably think of Charles Baudelaire as an overrated, vaguely Satanic poet who wrote a slim volume called Flews du Mai and wanted to be thought more wicked than he was. Biographer Pierre Loving does not so much correct this impression as...