Word: charming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charm School (a novel later dramatized in collaboration with Robert Miltone, Are Women People...
...Coming to Washington two years ago as the successor of Dr. Wiedfeldt, who refused to lower the German flag at the death of ex-President Woodrow Wilson, he had a hard row to hoe; but by his energy and straight-forwardness in official matters and by his skill and charm as a host he soon conquered the Washington diplomatic circle and society...
...plead the cause of his mutilated country. Standing erect, well over six feet tall, gaunt & sinewy, his grizzled beard almost covering his necktie, he is a commanding figure. And speaking a dozen languages fluently?English almost perfectly?with a rare gift for oratory and inescapable charm, he has made himself a world-wide figure, known intimately, and usually beloved, by the statesmen of at least two continents. It is doubtful if the word of any living Hungarian carries as much moral weight as that of Count Apponyi...
...dump heap. Here they meet a rich gentleman who has lost his memory. After much todo, Alice reaches the arms of the restored man of property, and the old soldier hears bugles calling as the curtain falls slowly on a preposterous yarn, told with undeniable but sometimes unmistakably forced charm...
...attention has just been called to the following statement under Anthropology 1 in your "confidential guide" of courses published on Monday: "Its charm lies largely in the fact that it enables one to meet the science requirement without too much effort." I don't wish to rob this course of any of its charm, but I think some notice should be given that Anthropologoy 1 does not meet the science requirement in distribution. Would you be willing to make some short notice to this effect? Delmar Leighton, Committee on the Choice of Electives...