Word: charmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give your seat to the gentleman." He read the Anatomy of Melancholy for his violent fits of blues, once cried out: "What have I not suffered from a look!" His good pal was hulking, roundheaded, roaring, witty, Rabelaisian Secretary of State Robert Toombs, great orator and charmer, who had once called Secessionists "bad men and traitors...
...Minister of Public Culture Oboardo Dino Alfieri. One of the founders of Fascism, a friend of Mussolini since World War I, smoothie, trouble shooter, woman-charmer (Italians say he could make an Englishwoman feel beautiful and an Ethiopian feel important), he consistently boosted the Axis in the Italian press-until the war began...
Marriage revealed. Isa Miranda (real name: Ines Sampietro), 25, blonde Italian cinema charmer, favored by Mussolini; and Alfredo Guarini, 38, her business manager and adviser; on July 1, in Tucson, Ariz...
Sculptor Jacob Epstein is no charmer. In London, where he has lived for 34 years, U. S.-born Epstein's elemental stonecutting has regularly shocked the prissy, amused the laity, enraged the pretty and made news for the press. Last week it all happened again when his latest work, a three-ton figure in pink alabaster entitled Adam, was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. In general mass and demeanor Adam resembled an unusually upright gorilla with his fists at his chest and his face lifted manlike toward the stars. The conception was obvious and the execution direct...
Music by Ruby Newman, intermission entertainment by the Boston Junior jitterbug champions, a snake-charmer, and a magician, and readings by palmists and character artists will feature Eliot's spring dance, slated for 10 to 3 o'clock on Friday, May 12. There will be dancing on the terrace...