Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jealousies and backbiting between leaders and senatorial candidates. The Senate seat now occupied by white-goateed Frederick Huntington Gillett is open to the 1930 election. Aged 78, an officeholder for a half-century, he is the Senate's best contract bridge player but otherwise has left no large impress upon its history. Younger men want his place, but he has volunteered to step aside only for Citizen Calvin Coolidge...
...Swarthmore honors plan, the Harvard tutorial system and the Wisconsin Experimental College all impress us as admirable reforms tending to informalize and intensify college training. They show a growing tendency to consider each student as an individual, to adapt the course of study to his needs and interests, to stimulate his curiosity, and to develop his initiative. However, the two former plans are narrowly limited in their application. The real young barbarians are seldom honor students or sons of Harvard. They are "C" students in the state universities and newer colleges. Not until these institutions follow the example of Wisconsin...
...makeup much of the time. Because the story, de pending mostly on character, is a strong one, because the background is unusually well directed, the picture is worth seeing in spite of several long, slow dialog sequences. Best shot: Miss Dresser making the no-good slap her face to impress her daughter...
...commenting on the Kansas City convention, Citizen Coolidge pointed out that the opposition to Herbert Hoover made the mistake of scattering itself over many candidates none of whom developed strength "to make a showing sufficient to impress the convention...
...wives hold the steady interest of Washington Society. Among these are Senators Bingham, Couzens, Edge, Hale, Johnson, Moses, Phipps, Shipstead, Wagner, Tydings. Senator Borah still moves at the edge of this group, an old lion whose mane and roaring once petrified and enchanted but are now too familiar to impress...