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Word: charm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mugging, singing, dancing, and dialogue blend most charmingly when Richard Smithies and William Bridges as the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle give Alice a demonstration of the Lobster Quadrille and describe their childhood in the school under the sea. Next in order of charm is the scene between Alice and Humpty-Dumpty, played by Colgate Salisbury...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Alice in Wonderland | 2/16/1955 | See Source »

...veteran and expert traveler, and I am getting fed to the teeth. You learn not to deal with representatives of airlines in small towns. They were chosen for their looks and have taken courses in charm, but they misinform you about routes and connections, which may throw your whole trip off or lengthen it 50 per cent, and the reservations they make may not stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies: DEMOCRACY REQUIRES DISSENTING OPINIONS | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...show's great weakness-which puts Pennsylvania's rusticities miles behind Oklahoma !'s-is its uninspired score. This ack of musical verve-there isn't too much dancing, either-helps explain why Plain and Fancy has a lot of sociological charm but very little social gaiety; why it smells of apples that seem uniformly destined for pie rather than cider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Feb. 7, 1955 | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...inferiors in gun fighting skill, or kicking other young punks who are down and unarmed. The amazing thing is that the writers, actors, and director are so skillful that one doesn't at all mind these breaches of horse opera etiquette. In fact, it would kill the picture's charm if the heroes were a whit less disposed to prove their toughness...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: The Gunfighter | 2/3/1955 | See Source »

...undergraduate education is to discover what it means to be a man. This has always to be done in personal individual terms. A college will be strong, therefore, only where those studies flourish whose principal value is to arouse such awareness and where they are taught with charm and vigar and win respect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Must Expand Dormitories To Relieve Crowding, Pusey States | 2/2/1955 | See Source »

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