Word: charming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suavely King Amanullah addressed the 700. A despot, he can charm with honeyed words. He did. Perspiring patriarchs ceased to wriggle in their pants, succumbed to royal blandishments, beamed when King Amanullah implied that their high destiny is to make Afghanistan pants-conscious...
...Author. Distinguished disciple of Henry James, Edith Wharton fills her pages with lucid psychological analyses. She does so with much of the master's charm, none of his diffuseness, some of his greatness. Like him she lives mostly abroad, and writes of the U. S. Daughter of a Rhinelander, she was brought up to winter in Manhattan, summer in Newport, travel in Europe. Her most brilliant work reflects Fifth Avenue society of the '90s (in her House of Mirth, in her Age of Innocence), but oddly enough her masterpiece concerns the passion and remorse of a New England...
...more interested anyway in the heroine of his youth, his older wife, Murasaki* of the versatile wit and mature charm. "Coming from the presence of younger women, such as Nyosan, Genji always expected that Murasaki would appear to him inevitably (and he was willing to make allowance for it) a little bit jaded, a trifle seared and worn. . . . But as a matter of fact it was just these younger women who failed to provide any element of surprise, whereas Murasaki was continually astounding him . . . her clothes scented with the subtlest and most delicious perfumes...
...Arabian Nights" . . . "Don Quixote with a dash of Jane Austen" . . . fortunately the ancient Japanese document is no such mongrel monstrosity as all of this. But the reviewers' floundering tributes indicate something of its variegated appeal. In limpid prose The Tale combines curiously modern social satire with great charm of narrative. Translator Waley has done service to literature in salvaging to the Occident this masterpiece of the Orient written circa...
Senator Gillett also described for the ladies of Springfield the charm, culture, intelligence of his friend, Mrs. Herbert Hoover. Then he said: "Of course, I cannot say very much of Mrs. Smith, because I have never known her, but if the contest was between Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Smith-He did not finish the sentence but the Republican ladies of Springfield thought they understood and applauded knowingly, enthusiastically...