Word: impression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rachmaninoff Third, when it came, did not impress critics any more than it had in Philadelphia at its world premiere last fortnight. The choir of strings sang out lovely melodies, the instrumentation was competent, but the work as a whole was disorganized. Decided the Herald Tribune's Lawrence Gilman: "It has much of his familiar quality-his blend of sombre brooding and lyrical expansiveness and defiant gaiety. But the eminent Russian has said most of it before, in substance, and has said it with more weight and felicity and salience." The Times's Olin Downes proposed: "Would...
...discovered by the King's Proctor, Sir Thomas Barnes. To this official, a personal appointee of the Sovereign, spiteful persons annually send thousands of anonymous letters. Some of these the King's Proctor turns over to detectives. Some of their snooping turns up facts discreditable enough to impress the blase Proctor. When much impressed he drafts a report to the Attorney General and by a process often much like drawing a card at random from a pack, some of the King's Proctor's reports are acted...
Jooss was scarcely out on his own when old-style ballet began to impress him. He admired it for its discipline, its grace. As ballet master at the opera house in Münster he found a sympathetic collaborator in Fritz Cohen, a budding young conductor who was glad to write music for dancing. In Münster the leading dancer was Aino Siimola, a sleek black-haired Esthonian who became Jooss's wife and assistant director...
...Jacobs has bet on remark ably few. Unlike most trainers, who hope to enlarge their earnings by wagering on their products, he made it his purpose from the outset to derive a surer if more modest income solely from prizes. By 1929 he had achieved his ends sufficiently to impress a Florida colonel, one Isidor Bieber, who hired him to train his B. B. Stable. Last year Hirsch Jacobs bought the Bieber horses, settled down to work in earnest. Since 1933, the first year he led the list of U. S. trainers, he has saddled 507 winners. They amount...
...dishonesties and irresponsibilities of his colleagues could be measured. Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration is an exhaustive, scholarly, 1,000-page volume, based on the huge manuscript diary kept by Fish and containing much unpublished material. No book for hasty readers, it is likely to impress most students as a solid historical achievement, slow-moving but not dull, a biography for those who like facts regardless of the animation with which they are presented...