Word: charme
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tLOST. - A lady's gold watch with blue enamelled charm. Finder please leave at Leavitt & Peirce's and obtain suitable reward...
Besides the usual watch-charm of a foot ball with a transparency of the team in the centre, each member of the Yale 'varsity foot ball team will this year receive a large souvenir picture, four feet wide and six long, designed by Pach. Across the lower part are individual pictures of the rushers, and above these the backs, all in their respective positions. In one upper corner is a group picture of the eleven and in the other, one of the eleven and substitutes. Across the top of the picture is the season's score, "Yale 490 points, Opponents...
...piece of prose as there is in the eighth number of the Advocate. In the mutual misunderstanding of the man and the woman, who are the sole human characters of the sketch, we recognize certain phases of the story of Beatrice and Benedict - modernized. What constitutes the chief charm of the sketch is the directness of thought and expression, terseness in phrasing, and the simplicity shown in introducing perhaps the most important character of the tale, Chimborazo, the match-making...
...reads the charming "Sonnets" which Mr. Santayana contributes to this number of the Monthly, there comes an earnest wish that more of its author's work might be published. For all of the five sonnets charm one by reason of a quiet but exquisite elegance of diction, a poetical serenity of thought, and touches of soulful aspiration. Of the five, the first three appear to us to be the best, although perhaps at the most such culling is invidious distinction...
Another excellent piece of prose is "A Christmas Story." The chief charm of the story lies in its excessively incongruous conclusion, - a conclusion for which the the first part of the story does not prepare one in the slightest. The diction is good...