Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The American public as a whole labors under the delusion that entertainers and show folk are wealthy groups. This is far from true and it is about time that someone with first hand information rectified this impression.
Harvard is for Bliss Perry the "Cockpit of Learning." Up to the time of his appointment there had never been a chair of "English Literature", as he explains, "the term 'English' being considered clastic enough to cover both linguistic and literature courses. As "the successor of Ticknor, Longfellow and Lowell...
Frankie Parker is a 19-year-old tennist from Milwaukee. Two years ago, his promise made such a profound impression upon Mercer Beasley that that famed coach not only undertook to improve his game but legally adopted him, sent him to Lawrenceville. Last week, at Forest Hills, N. Y., Frankie...
Both brokers and businessmen, however, took the promise of a "breathing spell" with a deal of salt. Some even remarked that, what with the New Deal legislation already enacted, there was precious little room for business to breathe anyway. ''Business and financial judgment may of course be wrong," said the...
His relationship with the prince enabled Carl Raswan to observe and participate in aspects of Bedouin life closed to most foreigners. He lived with the Ruala as one of them, visited them eleven times in the next 22 years, hunted and raided with them, was eventually adopted into the tribe...