Word: charming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a T-square. Everything indicated that her vitals were made of steel and rubber; her tail, when touched, would snap upward as crisply as a stick of whalebone. Her frisky good-nature was that of a high-pressure debutante; in a day when such ardent and consciously winsome charm is highly prized in drawing rooms, it cannot fail to have its value in the ring of a dog show; Talavera Margaret was judged the best dog in the show...
...less innate genius, she caused no kingdoms to change hands, married no prince, inspired no desperate armies to an improbable triumph. Her career was merely that of a successful courtesan; but because she secured for her lovers the most distinguished men of her age, because her wit and charm per- mitted her to become simultaneously a notably fashionable as well as a notoriously promiscuous figure, because her refusal to marry was based partly on her unwillingness to accept the conventional limitations of femininity, she has been remembered. Her influence in succeeding generations has been powerful and, in the main, propitious...
...Hunter. Funnyman Syd Chaplin is never nearly so funny as his famed brother. What with his wide grin and his rapid trotting motion, he seldom cuts a solemn figure on the screen. Herein, first trying to marry a rich beautiful girl for money he is aided by the grace, charm and beauty of Helene Costello (sister to the famed Dolores). Later, trying to marry a poor, blonde girl for love, he is obstructed by Clara Horton, a horrible ingenue...
...tendency to lag. The atmosphere of the plot is so pronounced that the reader from the beginning gains a fairly accurate impression of the ultimate outcome of it, while at the same time the characters are portrayed so sharply that they become almost automatons, and lose the charm of their individuality. The net result is that the reader, in addition to knowing what the story is going to be, knows also as soon as a character is introduced, what he or she is going to do in every situation...
With rhythm suited to the thought and spots of soft lyric and charm this poem squeezes through the fence, however, not without groans and short monosyllabic cries, most masculine in volume and tone but emitted from poet-made woman's lips...