Word: charming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what's more, the boy can act. What's more than that--if you insist on something more--his lady dancing partner, Mr. Courtland Gross, is almost as good. We don't know where Gross learned to dance, still less where he discovered the subtle secret of how women charm. One thing sure, he didn't learn it playing hockey on that team which administered such a satisfactory walloping to the gentlemen from Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth. As for Wilson, all the experts in such matters swear that he has improved his last year's performance about 100 per cent...
Opening his recital at Jordan Hall last evening with "Promesse de mon avenir" (from 'Le Roi de Lahore' by Massenet), Mr. Henri Marcoux, baritone, impressed his audience at once with his mellow charm and confident vigor. As one would expect of such a finished singer, a protege of Mr. Isadore Braggiotti, there was no trace of diffident restraint, and by the time that M. Marcoux had concluded the second number of the next group he revealed the richness and subtle nuances of his unusual voice and stirred more than polite enthusiasm...
...entirely of French songs of an increasingly deep emotional tinge "Toujour a Toi" by Tschaikowsky, and "Le Captil" by Gretchaninow bracketed the numbers, causing most comment, and aroused the responsive audience for his superb recital of the Prologue from "Pagliacci." Here M. Marcoux first sang with more than authentic charm and purity of tone. His attack on the concluding strong passionate bars, almost beyond the range of the ordinary baritore's voice, removed any lingering trace of uncertainty as to his unusual power and dramatic intensity...
...American wife, Miss Henrietta S. Porter of Annapolis, who died in 1919. In 1921 he married Miss Mabel Davison of Manhattan, sister to the late Henry P. Davison, famed banker. He died at Mentone, French Riviera, universally honored among scholars and beloved on two continents for his warm, compelling charm...
...under Greek rule (1890-1909). He organized the Balkan League, which thrust Turkey back from considerable European territory in the Balkan War of 1912. After the World War, Venizelos proved himself easily the greatest diplomat among the representatives of minor powers at the Paris Peace Conference. His "enticing charm"-as one statesman expressed it-won for Greece so much added territory that the Greco-Turkish frontier is now but 20 miles from Constantinople...