Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dishonored Lady. Every well-informed criminologist remembers the case of Madeleine Smith of Glasgow who poisoned her lover because he was trying to impede her marriage to a moneyed man. This incident has been used by Margaret Ayer Barnes and Edward Sheldon as the basis of a new play in...
Out of the piling wealth of her experience, Peggy drew up ten categorical imperatives for husbands. One of them: "He must get up first in the morning and not let me see him until he is shaved. It is very tiring to have to look at a husband early in...
No translator of mere words can convey to a nation the sentiments and life of another. It requires a native of a country to relate to his countrymen the habits of thought and action of another race. Next in value to expatriate students as translators of the emotional and intellectual...
Thus far somebody, has overlooked an opportunity to obtain front page publicity and to arouse editorial discussions, to say nothing of clerical debates and letters to the various editors. Moreover, it seems that the incident of the Dunster Street Bookshop, which has stirred a lot of people who are easily...
Such an impression is highly unfortunate, and strenuous measures of some kind should certainly be taken to correct it. Yet it seems hardly fair to put the blame wholly upon individuals, when the sweeping generality of the complaint is in itself proof that the fault lies rather with the institution...