Word: charming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Making rich men and poor men think alike was henceforth his great aim, which he pursued with a lively, pioneering use of the terms, "team work," "co-operation," "the other fellow's slant." Banal enough on other tongues, these terms apparently possessed charm when rolled forth with lively persistence by a member of the St. Andrews and Burns Societies. Unlike most go-betweens, Editor Forbes escaped being crushed; was instead raised on high by opposing pressures...
Gilbert Murray's presence here has been a living rebuke to this passion for the latest, the simply clever, the sensational. To those willing to learn he has taught the charm of truth without the prevailing ornaments of paradox and pseudo-sophistication. He rather deals in truth which we have forgotten, passed by; the recalls our attention to the lessons of the past...
...Eliot, the national leader, is not true of Eliot, the man. Boston, Cambridge, and the Yard are filled with memories of splendid, dead Olympians. One more has been added to them, one whose slight, bent figure need dispute the gravel walk with none of them, yet one whose personal charm and living quality will become with each succeeding year less a tangible memory of living flesh and blood. It is safe to say that time will add to the lustre and the glory of his fame. It is equally sure that as a personal character, Dr. Eliot will from this...
John Hazard and Frank Crumit, who play the Nettleton Johns outfit, are surprisingly natural in their actions except for too much winking at the audience Mile. Sanderson was on hand occasionally with her perennial charm and a good voice. She was called back four or five times for the song in which she hinted that she was a lady. Polly and Dick, the office-hands, were nice youngsters who insisted on missing the last note of every song. Coddles, the coo-coo maid stumbled around in mad gyrations and burlesque ballets until Ye Wilbur threatened to collapse on its foundations...
...audience reveling in Gilbert and Sullivan. Lasting geniuses were scarce in the latter part of the nineteenth century--but these two would appear to have withstood the test of time. Certainly modes and manners have changed since the "Pinafore" craze of the seventies. But sweet little Buttercup remains to charm her auditors, who may have learned to like many new and bizarre entertainments but who still retain a very great love...