Word: charming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often "well meaning" delays which are notorious in Soviet industry and were deemed characteristic of the Tsarol regime. Up to the present time no large group of Russians has ever been brought to abandon the dilatory ways upon which rests like a full blown lotus their universally undoubted charm...
Orators caught up the phrase. From the World's Fair, the stage, current literature, the mouths of suffragettes, Author Beer sweeps together damaging evidence of the rise of the U. S. "Titaness," who now "drifts toward middle age without valour, charm or honor," after inventing "cheap cruelty and low social pressures...
WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS - Barrie's glowing essay on charm admirably interpreted by Helen Hayes...
...widow whom he has never seen. Through the vagaries of an old man's will this marriage will net them jointly $3,750,000. The widow objects to being married for money, disguises herself as her own parlor maid and wins the rude invader by her wit and charm...
That is to say that wit and charm were the playwright's intent. Actually, he did not charge his manuscript with an overabundance of either. The performances of Beatrice Hendricks and Curtis Cooksey were fairly helpful...