Word: charm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...inculcation of courtesy which belonged to the older type of gentlemen he has brought home in his successive visits here a lesson than which none is more needed in American life. The value of his teaching moreover has always been exemplified as well as enhanced by his own rare charm of manner and of utterance. Even although his instruction abides in memory we shall yet miss the inspiring example of the teacher. BENJAMIN RAND...
...Farm Bridge, and in his excitement he lost his balance and fell in. Although a good swimmer, Hush was dragged down by the weight of three gold hockey pucks, two gold footballs, two gold swimming pools, a Phi Beta Kappa Key, and a gold porcupine attached to his watch charm, and was drowned before the oarswomen could come...
...bulk of the undergraduate contributions are evenly divided between essay, sketch, picture, story, and verse. Mr. B. P. Clark's "Fancies" is an excellent example of the new freedom in verse that is opening up much inner spirit, even though it sacrifices part of the poet's charm. "The Copper Duke," by Robert G. Dort, has not enough atmosphere or excitement about it to make a banal invention into an exhilarating plot. Mr. Skinner's "Courtesy of War," a sketch of a French village in war time, has more cultured ease in the telling than the subject can stand...
...prose. Of the poems, "The Death of Penelope" is by far the longest flight; and it is well sustained. The poet's observation of the scenic world is close and sympathetic, and it is matched by considerable skill of descriptive phrase. Of briefer compass, the lyrics are not without charm, notably, "Weitschmerz," "The Vision of Heart's Delight," and "Laughter and the Rain." The ethical impulse is strong in the author; but it is genuinely striving, not without success, to utter itself in forms of beauty. These verses fall short ultimately not because they are "badly expressed," for they...
...Concert in Symphony Hall this evening: 1. March, "Wien bleibt Wien" Schrammel 2. Overture, "Mignon" Thomas 3. Largo, Handel (Violin, Mr. Hoffmann; Harp, Mr. Holy; Organ, Mr. Marshall). 4. Waltz, "Artists' Life" Strauss 5. Selection from "La Boheme," Puccini 6. a. Cradle Song, R. Strauss b. Cloud Charm, Urack (Cornet Solo, Mr. Heim) 7. Two Movements from "Bal Costume," Rubinstein a. Etoile du Soir. b. Toreador at Andalouse. 8. Overture, "The Gypsy Baron," Strauss 9. Organ Solo. (Mr. Marshall). 10. Waltz, "Vienna Blood," Strauss 11. American Fantasy, Herbert (Organ, Mr. Marshall). 12. March, "Mit Standarten," Bloon