Word: charming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dapper gentlemen approached the Earl of Birkenhead. "We know Your Lordship is a great student of the English language. . . . Perhaps Your Lordship will spell two score words against my friend-?100 to the winner. . . . Your Lordship has the repute of being a sportsman. . . ." The wine sang, but served to charm from Lord Birkenhead only his normal reaction to a bounder. "Sir," he said, courteously enough, "I have never seen you before, and I have no desire to see you again." Pause. "However, since you appear to wish to lose ?100, I will dive for that sum from the top springboard...
Figures that charm and allure and enthrall...
...with Fanny Rice in The Jolly Squire in 1892; three years later his own name was in headlines across the façade of the old Herald Square Theatre. He was playing in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. He had intelligence, sensitiveness and a rare, nervous charm. He duplicated his success in London. He supported Mme. Simone in The Return From Jerusalem. At 28 he turned manager and introduced the plays of George Bernard Shaw to the U. S. He acted in Candida, Arms and the Man, The Man of Destiny. His work was not great...
...love story, in the first place, becomes a delicate, powerful study in reticences. Charm conquers incredibility when, on 24 hours' notice, Mercedes Garcia of polyglot Pennsylvania origin marries Stephen Londreth, rancher-runaway from Philadelphia's aristocracy. The continental poetry of Wyoming, in the second place, emerges with clarity and sublimity; from the grave, racy, accurate talk of cowmen about their animals, to the ineffable silence of mountain ranges. The serious thesis, finally, that men are better outdoors than in; that the Antaeus myth is sober truth; that cities bury their builders' souls, is argued with a militance...
...charm of his personality to which was added the grace of his physique and the bouyancy and simplicity of his nature was a constant inspiration and joy to those with whom he was associated. No alumnus was more devoted to the University. His death leaves a vacancy which will be most difficult to fill...