Word: charm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...there are more than three or four living Americans who could speak for an hour and a half on political questions, and hold the audience in deepest interest and handle their subject with such complete grasp and skill. More than that, Mrs. Pankhurst is a woman of rare charm and of the highest idealism. How could Harvard be so lacking in courtesy, chivalry and good taste as to refuse to let her have our finest lecture hall...
...settings, too, caught the eye and pleased the waiting imagination, while in the play of the lights was sensitive feeling, accomplishing its design. The magnified poultry yard had its humors, and the waxing of the dawn until the full sunlight brightened the whole countryside was full of pictorial charm...
...Fogg Museum has also received, as an indefinite loan, a small pinnacle representing St. Agnes, attributed to Ambrogio Lorenzetti. The little picture has much of the charm of the early Sienese School, though its some what rough execution does not compare favorably with the best work of Lorenzetti. It is the oldest painting in the Fogg Museum. Lorenzetti was active between 1323 and 1348, and this painting, even if executed by one of his pupils, was probably painted before 1350. The next earliest painting to this is a picture attributed to Spinello Aretino, which was probably painted in the year...
...those who enjoy old plots as much as old books, old friends and old wine, "Miss Dudelsack" will have an unusual charm. Here again the beautiful hereine who was always supposed to be the daughter of an old "Churman" finds that she really has a fortune, and old castle and a title. Thus after three hours, or rather eighteen years, of unappreciated worth she finally wins the young lord who could not marry beneath his rank but who had always loved...
...should like to call attention to the performances of Irish plays by the Irish players at the Plymouth Theatre, Boston. The charm and power of the plays, and the excellence of the acting, give evidence of an artistic reawakening by Ireland which may again bring that country into prominence as an important factor in the civilized world...