Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drive it forward. It is hard for the American, accustomed to a Congress, plodding undisturbed, to picture the torments of a Republican government in Southern Europe with all the responsibilities, all the antagonisms, and all the difficulties of a monarchy, and with none of the definite powers to impress a Latin populace. And so to impulsive southern chiefs of all-powerful organizations, like the armies of Spain and Greece and the Fascisti of Italy, the junking of the existing inefficient governments and the instituting of themselves as dictators seems most beneficial...
...Master of the Inn. In a rather complicate and generally unconvincing contraption the gospel of doing good to others does not impress. The master in point had been disappointed in love and was healing his own wound by taking care of others of the world's unfortunates. The girl he loved and her erratic husband were numbered in this considerable category. He cured them both and returned them to their happiness with no apparent purpose except the proverbially reciprocal reward of virtue...
Many years ago Gladstone said, "... the young man with the true parliamentary manner is Edward Grey." It is the parliamentary manner that permeates his Twenty-Five Years.* Just as Lord Grey† knew how to manage and impress the House of Commons, which was not by the brilliance of his oratory but by his obvious sincerity, so he has managed his material and has created two impressive books, which are matched in their importance only by the conviction they carry...
...race, as it was one of elapsed time, did not impress as dramatic those spectators who had come without their stopwatches. The two bright, high-whining little planes faded away and reappeared four times, covering a triangular course and keeping approximately the same visible interval between them. The judges announced that Lieut. Bettis, with an average speed of 248.99 miles an hour, had beaten the dashing Lieut. Williams, breaking the world record for 200 kilometres (124 miles) over a closed course...
...part of Mr. Evreinov, was first put into practice in Russia just before the Revolution. It is one of the few "theories" which have survived the general turmoil which has been evident in Russia in the last few years. The whole idea which Mr. Evreinov tries to impress on his audience is that drama to be forceful and effective must come nearer to the audience than it does at the present time. The actor must express the very things that go on in his listener's souls. Mr. Evreinov claims that the theatrical instinct is as evident in the individual...