Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"For 20 years I lived in the United States," said Mr. Takahashi. amiably waving his interviewer to a seat at the organ. "I returned to this country in 1922. My strongest impression of my native land was that the children did not use handkerchiefs. In one morning I saw 65...
When questioning ended, Dr. Cowles, who is a son-in-law of William Gibbs Mc-Adoo, dictated a formal statement: "I have welcomed the opportunity of coming to this investigation. I've especially invited the opportunity because there has been in the public press and in the questioning here...
Mrs. Jacques S. (Fannie Hurst) Danielson, novelist (Humoresque, Lummox, A President is Born), told London newshawks that her most vivid impression of England was "the length and adequacy of the underwear displayed in the stores."
The piece itself was adapted with a heavy hand by Frederic & Fanny Hatton from the Hungarian of Alexander Engel and Alfred Grunwald. An impression is created that the adapters got a great deal of secret pleasure out of translating the play and must have been continually conscious that their task...
Such a vault confronted World House-wrecking Co. Inc. in Manhattan last week. The late General Horace Porter of Civil War fame, onetime secretary to President U. S. Grant, had built it into his Victorian brownstone house at No. 277 Madison Avenue. His purpose remains obscure. When World Housewreckers opened...