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Word: impressionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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I have been interested in the book, How To Sing For Money, since it was in the manuscript stage. I thought your review (TIME, Oct. 9) a very keen analysis, but I wonder if it gave a slightly wrong impression of the function of the voice teacher today.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

You have attributed this language to me without the slightest warrant and, by placing it under the heading, "Gott Sei Mit Uns," by contrasting it with the contrary sentiments of "the vast majority of U. S. churchmen" and by various other devices and innuendoes you have created the impression not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

The Boston Museum now contains a collection of four small but expertly done paintings by Leon Bakst, chief artist for the "Ballet Russe" when Diaghilev was in charge of its production. Bakst is of great historical importance because his method and style revolutionized the application of the decorative arts to...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Quotable Senators were less spicy but just as sore. Said Senator Norris: "I've been in Congress 36 years but I've never seen a Member as dumb as that boy. . . . The movies had a chance to do a good job, but they have given the public only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mr. Smith Riles Washington | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

William Gerhardi (pronounced Jer-hardi), suave novelist whose undergraduate impression of Winston Churchill is famous ("poor stuff for a grown-up man"), signed up in the Officers' Emergency Reserve. Born in St. Petersburg, he thought it "reasonable" of Russia to wish her own former Baltic provinces to remain Baltic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Noonday & Night | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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