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Word: impressionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"We can now understand why, although the Duce never talked of foreign peoples and governments, but alluded solely to men, parties and sects, his speeches created such a great impression in France.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Forewarned, Forearmed | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

Poet MacLeish's style is individual, marked but not marred by the omission of punctuation, by typographically broken lines, in the manner but not to the extent indulged in by Poet e. e. cummings. MacLeish's verse often gives the same impression as Hemingway's prose: quiet but threatening, simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U. S. Poet | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Louisianimals Sirs: TIME has an unpleasant, if careless, insistence on giving the impression that the people of Louisiana are Louisianimals. What scarce news TIME gives of this state tends more toward creating a picture of an indolent people ruled by a crazy governor and the dictates of a dying Democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 23, 1930 | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

"There can be no doubt that one or more portraits of Ethan were made. He was an astute publicity man and particularly fond of making an impression, wear ing bright uniforms, saying and doing dashing things. He lived in the age of the journeyman painter who rode from door to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Wanted: Ethan Allen | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

Bitter at her best, Dorothy Parker can also be funny. You Were Perfectly Fine is a dialog between a man with a hangover and a girl who tells him what he did last night. Each revelation bends him a little further. The Sexes, also a dialog, pictures the love-life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aristocracy | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

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