Word: impressively
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...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...
Line coaches were using the black board yesterday to impress blocking assignments on the running guards and tackles. Straight power always plays a big part, and if the expected touchdowns are to materialize next season, the blocking must be perfectly timed, with each assignment expertly executed...
Moving spirit in the circulation of the petition has been Dale Pontius, assistant in Government, who is a member of the Teachers' Union. Copies of the paper will be sent to all seven of the Cambridge Representatives and Senators, in an effort to impress upon them the fact that it will mean loss of important votes if they do not support repeal of the oath...
...game, worried his distant family by his frank reports of dissipation ("No wonder people get drunk at Oxford! It is a silly life!"). But he won his "blue" for boxing, made more friends, did some studying and began to think for himself. His first encounter with Carlyle did not impress him: "What a queer man! At first his style reminded me of an illiterate Japanese journalist writing for an English paper in Australia!" His letters to his father began to bristle with awkwardly unanswerable questions...
...which a prankster buzzes for a composer, demands and gets a roundelay in 15 minutes. Composers and lyricists now attend conferences with producers and directors, receive specific assignments that take into consideration the personalities of the performers. One constant reminder is that a song must be catchy enough to impress on first hearing, as did Cheek to Cheek in Top Hat, Alone in One Night at the Opera...