Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desk I have two letters to editors of New York papers which he wrote for me to use in approaching them for a job. At the time he went to great trouble to impress me with the fact that hundreds upon hundreds of reporters throughout the length and breadth of the countryside would give their eyeteeth to possess them. . . . And here was I, Destiny's tot, getting them for absolutely nothing. Before that evening was over they cost...
Meanwhile 27 U. S. bombing planes, newly purchased by Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, were kept thundering over Nanking, his capital, to impress last week's arriving delegates to the so-called Chinese Parliament or Central Executive Committee. This gathering's name, copied from that of the ruling body in Moscow, recalls the days when Generalissimo Chiang fought with the assistance of Communist subsidies. Today Nanking is a modern Capitalist capital and Chiang's bureaucrats keep fit with daily calisthenics dictated by his New Life Movement, appear nattily efficient and most different from the opium-soaked Chinese often...
With monotonous regularity the Securities & Exchange Commission continues to impress upon news readers the fact that corporation executives make a lot of money. Little has been done to give SEC's flow of fat figures any real business meaning. Most scholarly salary study to date was made by Economist John C. Baker in the Harvard Business Review last winter. Sampling 100 corporations great & small, Economist Baker discovered, among other things, that in 1929 U. S. management salaries averaged 6.6% of earnings, that in the five years through 1932 they averaged 10.8%. Last week, two more salary compilations were published...
...telling tall tales. Last week Author Thome's third book made the resemblance seem even stronger. Though he has not yet taken the royal road to the ladies-lecture platform, Anthony Thorne is obviously hoping for Hollywood. Down Come the Trees is too improbable a yarn to impress even a hot-weather reader, but its cinematic possibilities are patent. The crudely-drawn celluloid silhouettes in his latest story can be seen through at a glance, but enlarged by Hollywood sound and fury they might well be heard from in box-office terms...
...concerns a society-gossip columnist {Sonnie Hale, Miss Matthews' husband in real life) who has trouble finding a celebrity to write about. A friend (Robert Young) invents one, a glamorous Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, proficient dancer and tiger-shooter just back from India. Miss Matthews, having failed to impress a sleepy producer, poses as Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, startles London by riding down the Mall on a camel. Funniest sequence: Mrs. Smythe-Smythe is asked to demonstrate her shoot ing prowess at an Oriental party given in her honor; the gun, going off in her shaking hands, shatters a vase...