Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Considerably more than a pressagent. Joe Baker is partly responsible for the public's impression that FTC is chiefly concerned with misnamed "Army & Navy" stores, imaginative cosmetic makers and candy manufacturers who use lottery devices to lure hungry urchins. The vast majority of FTC cases come under the elastic...
When the old Prima salesmen met resistance to Mr. Skinner's watered product, the handsome, enthusiastic adman fired them, being under the impression that "anyone could sell beer if he just forced the issue hard enough." But even his new hirelings could not move the beer which by now...
When School Superintendent Vernon Evans and Principal Carl A. W. Pierce sprang to Teacher Hallin's side, her father, C. Fred Hallin, recovered sufficiently from his illness to begin circulating a petition demanding her reinstatement. Snorted Father Hallin: "Isabelle had rehearsals here in the house because the school hall...
The Russians, she decided, for all their stolid appearance, "were far more acute than Englishmen." Except for "the smell peculiar to all things Russian-rotten leather or duck," she found them more attractive than they were painted. Spanish bullfights (where she admired the bulls more than the matadors) were much...
In the House of Commons, statements made by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden last week gave everyone an impression that His Majesty's Government was going to recognize the Spanish Rightists as a true government having "belligerent rights"¶until suddenly this was postponed to enable the new French Cabinet...