"You've made an impressive start, boys," said my dad as he watched the three of us peer cluelessly at a map.
And he was a friend, Robert thought, good old Johnson, and his wife, Elma, and their impressive boys, Laurence at West Point and Freddy at Amherst, Robert paying their tuition, or paying the portion their scholarships didn't cover.
"George, Nicholas and Wilhelm" is an impressive book.
To succeed the volatile Har old Ickes as Secretary of the Interior in 1946, Mr. Truman chose 38‐year‐old Julius Albert (Cap) Krug, who had earned an impressive reputation as a "boy wonder" in government service as well as private business.
You might be saying, "Don't talk to me like that!" or telling them off for giving you a terrible excuse, but you're thinking, "That's an impressive one!" There's one boy who comes up with excuses that are so surreal, you want to award him a prize.
When English Touring Theatre conducted a poll of the nation's favourite plays, Tom Stoppard's Arcadia came in an impressive fourth behind The History Boys, Noises Off and Hamlet.
He also helped power Run Fat Boy Run to an impressive £11.02m here.
He said, 'Clothes make the man, dear boy' " — Curtis did an impressive Olivier accent — " 'Just put on the clothes, Tony, and look at yourself; you'll know what to do,' he would say.
Mr Ospel was handsomely rewarded, to the tune of SFr26.6m.It was an impressive vantage point for a poor boy from Basel, who had clawed his way up without the benefit of a university degree or the near-mandatory rank of officer in the Swiss military reserve.
With new boy Tonio Liuzzi an impressive seventh on a heavier fuel load, Vijay Mallya's team are in good shape, close to the Brawns, who were also running reasonable fuel loads as they qualified fifth (Rubens Barrichello) and sixth (Button), and crucially are ahead of their title rivals Red Bull, who lined up ninth and 10th.
There were some last-minute heroics to keep the title race bubbling, domestic bother for a former Spurs player, a surprise candidate for the Marseille coaching job (which isn't even available – yet), a triple-disaster for Rennes, your usual refereeing scandal and an impressive response from France's golden boy facing the first backlash of his career.
