Word: impressions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good one especially as it may keep the proctors out of harms way correcting papers. After mid-years the stint will probably have to be extended op sentences of this nature, "I will not turn on the fire hose when I am intoxicated". Or perhaps something rhythmic would impress the boys more like, "round the rim of Hell the little rounder runs" or "only wasters date the waitresses...
...table came John W. Mackay, Irish immigrant miner. They were married. The famed Comstock Lode, in the opening of which he was an entrepreneur, yielded $300,000,000 in gold and silver within six years. Buttressed with wealth, Mrs. Mackay assailed San Francisco society, made but slight impress. She traveled to France. There her dark beauty, wit, enviable taste and prodigious fortune made her a social enchantress. Speaking flawless French, acquired from her mother, she was received in the almost impenetrable salons of the Faubourg St. Germain in Paris. Her Nevada brand of horsemanship, exhibited in the Bois du Boulogne...
...found in our group that lack of exercise is the most prolific cause of disease or ill health in our executives. If he would take a picture of the executives who are over 40, and show them how they look in silhouet in the nude, I think it would impress them. . . . I preach to them three things-posture, exercise and the wearing of suspenders. There are more big stomachs caused by the wearing of a belt than any other one thing I know of, because if one doesn't stick one's stomach out, something embarrassing is going...
...should begin now to impress upon the thoughtless the privilege of the fran chise. . . , Eight million of young men and women are now eligible to vote for a President for the first time...
...George Eastman and his Kodaks; without, at the same time deigning to give even the briefest possible mention to Ansco, which, I understand, held most of the original patents and processes upon which the present Photographic Industry is based; nor have you ever, by the very least typographical impress, even so much as given a fact-hungry list of subscribers, newsstandbuyers, Junior Leaguers, et al., the faintest inkling concerning the merger of Agfa, superpotent Chemical combine, German-owned, with the 86-year old U. S. owned Ansco Photoproducts, Inc. to form Agfa Ansco Corp.; neither did you give, in your...