Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great commoner came stronger support; doughty Sir Winston Churchill grumped, "As a parliamentarian, I cannot approve your disorderly method," nevertheless pledged $1,400 to save the theater, which was to be replaced by an office building. Later, cooing, "Oh, how I do love millionaires; they are full of charm as well as dough," Actress Leigh announced happily that art-oriented A & P Moneybags Huntington Hartford and another tycoon had promised to chip in. Last week the embattled actress got the news that the House of Lords gallantly had voted a stay of demolition to the cramped, outmoded, bomb-battered...
Past the pink neon, away from Hot Dog Johnnie's and the Tower of Pizza, off the asphalt and under the elms, thousands of tourists were finding the peace of quiet ways and the charm of old things. Browsing through side-road antique stores, they gratefully swelled a business that has grown for four decades now, and keeps right on growing. Are antiques art? The mid-19th century farmer who carved a mold for his wife to make cookies for his little daughter's birthday would have smiled at the thought. He was an artist nonetheless, a creator...
...Evans, 52, often rides roughshod over the conversation with a donnish cackle and a rapid, sing-song voice that strikes some listeners like chalk drawn across a blackboard; lean, white-haired Brown, 57, a veteran lecturer and darling of women's clubs, is a courtly Kentuckian with effortless charm...
Power Plant. "Tubby" Clayton did not agree. The Rev. Philip B. Clayton, vicar of All Hallows, chaplain to George VI and to Elizabeth II, is a 71-year-old dynamo with a high-voltage output of devotion, human ingenuity and charm. A World War I chaplain, founder of the British religious organization called Toc H, the organizer of the Winant Volunteers- a U.S. group of college-age boys and girls who pay their way each year to work among the poor in London's slums-Padre Clayton knew how to get what he wanted. He first established squatter...
...Affair to Remember (20th Century-Fox) drags Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr over as bumpy a road to love as Hollywood has ever contrived. Deborah is an elegantly kept (by Richard Denning) lady with a Park Avenue lust nest; Cary is a charm-laden bachelor on the verge of merging with America's heiress with the mostest (Neva Patterson). From the moment they meet on a transatlantic liner, this cynical, money-grabbing pair feel an overwhelming compulsion to give up their comfortable arrangements for a tumble into each other's arms...