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...clouded by an odd feeling of jealousy toward myself . . . knocked [my admirer] down and trampled on her with all my might." In the same year, suffering from uncontrollable fits of laughter and bordering on insanity, he met his future wife Gala (then wife of Surrealist Poet Paul Eluard). To impress the Eluards, Dali decided to get himself up "very elaborately." He tore his best silk shirt to shreds, shaved his armpits so deep that they bled, transferred blood to other parts of his body, turning his bathing trunks inside out, placed an enormous red geranium behind one ear, a pearl...
When the U.S. had an area slightly larger than that of Mexico today, a population equal to that of Denmark, the world's smallest army, the least impressive fleet that sailed the seven seas and the longest defenseless coastline in the civilized world, John Adams, who was considered conservative, rushed to Europe to assert the superiority of American institutions he had helped create. When Hitler wanted to impress the Germans he told them their victories would last 1,000 years. Adams was less cautious. He told Europe the institu-[tions America had already built before 1800 "will not wholly...
...Friends of Music was founded by a smart Manhattan business executive named Ira A. Hirschmann (vice president of Bloomingdale's department store) in order to impress a lady pianist he wanted to marry. Some men buy their prospective brides platinum rings. Black-haired Ira Hirschmann gave Pianist Hortense Monath the New Friends to play with...
...Russo-Japanese nonaggression and neutrality pact was a diplomatic trump for the Kremlin-a way "to impress the Germans," says Author Scott. Stalin and Molotov went personally to the Moscow station to say farewell to the Jap signers. This joy had been celebrated in too much vodka. "Stalin went up to the aged and diminutive Japanese Ambassador General, punched him rather hard on the shoulder with an 'ah ... ha'. . . . The Japanese Military Attache staggered up to the dapper and fastidious . . . Soviet Chief of Protocol and slapped him on the back. Matsuoka got the giggles and thought that...
Usually, the older students at Harvard have been able to impress on the newer ones exactly what the annual November clash means to the College and its alumni, and, usually, they have succeeded. This year, however, there appears to be a feeling which is quite understandable owing to the accelerated program and the imminenc of the Army, that who wins the Harvard-Yale game counts for very little. Moreover, the older students have been able to do relatively little to change this attitude...