Word: charming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week in Washington. Miss Bloom, daughter of Congressman Sol Bloom, Democrat of New York, spoke at the second world welfare conference of the Women's Universal Alliance. Miss Bloom also said: "Mrs. Coolidge is worth $1,000,000 a year to the Republican Party. Her grace and charm are real assets in the White House and contribute much to the prestige of the Administration." Conference delegates also heard Miss Majorie Webster discuss "How to Develop Personality"; Miss Ella May Powell on "Music, the World's New Refuge"; and saw a religious pageant with authentic Biblical costumes from...
...plot is neither new nor many-sided. Only a writer of M. Maurois' taste and charm could have kept out of all danger of becoming trite or tiresome. Under his pen the story keeps up one's expectant interest although it never becomes absorbing. His chapters often glint with quiet humor as when "Daddy Leroy", and old mill-hand, is perched on a pile of cloth, holding a pistol to his head, and his superiors discuss the pros and cons of suicide with him, while his fellow hands sit by with their fingers in their ears...
...neglected in these modern days of jazz novels, Percy Marks, James Oliver Curwood, and the ever-satisfying tabloid. He is one of those excellent Victorian writers whose works have been neglected simply because he was a Victorian. In the same category falls Joel Chandler Harris, a writer of immense charm and once of great popularity. To the shame of present day taste even Harris Uncle Remus stories are not now very widely read...
...Aldis an exception to the rule. Her poems have most of the graces of their unconscious models. Per-haps the children for whom she speaks are a little too much the product of Al kindergartens and hygienic nurseries to be entirely unselfconscious. But she writes with fresh charm, deftness.. A "Naughty Soap Song" well represents...
Painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mechanics, engineering and natural philosophy were among the fields to which this extraordinary man turned his talents. To this versatility he added an extremely personable person, a polished charm, and an aptitude for any accomplishment...