Word: charm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...bequest of Mrs. James T. Fields gives Widener Library twenty-five of the more important volumes from the 'Shelf of Old Books' which she described so delightfully in her essays published under that title in 1894. In their new home they can never exert the charm --of which they were after all but a part of the frame--that made Mrs. Fields's home for a third of a century the most-sought literary mecca for those who knew their way about Boston. They will, however, find some old and many new friends on the securer shelves of the library...
...next nine games resulted in nine straight victories, and when Brown broke the charm in the 7 to 3 contest on Soldiers Field, the University made a trip to Providence and evened matters up by taking an 11 to 10 slug-fest. Since then the University has eliminated Princeton and has shut out both Williams and Pennsylvania, in addition, taking extra matches from the Calumet Club and the Pilgrims...
...Cummings, for all the limited number of rhymes, makes his poem sound perfectly smooth and unforced. "Sunset," by Mr. Damon, is a brief impression. "To a Child," by Mr. Code has at times an amateurish ring. Nevertheless Mr. Code goes a great way in expressing the typical charm of a child--and it is often these simplest things that are hardest to express...
...slammed a liner to left, and as Hanks made the mistake of trying to get it on the fly, the ball kept rolling toward the Charles while Abbot completed the circuit. Deyo then settled down and the next five University players failed to see first. Brickley broke the charm with a single over second in the fifth, but action of a run-getting variety was delayed until the next inning...
...Lamont's descriptive essay on Pekin leaves the reader with vivid impressions, of swarming Oriental crowds, of a blue-tiled temple roof, of the distant throbbing of a great drum. So well rendered is its portrayal of the city's Kaleidoscopic charm and immemorial antiquity, that one wishes the narrative strain of its opening had been more consistently sustained...