Word: charming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...varieties and in all places, from Brussels to Bagdad, most people know little or nothing of what is really done for them. On this unfamiliar subject, Dr. Nansen will be able to speak with the force and fascination of an expert, and his talk will have the added charm of one of President Lowell's well-known introductions...
...York Times: "The few characters in the book are all sordid, not to say squalid. . . . But the book is full of an atmosphere of spiritual charm and even beauty...
Richmond is a town flowing with charm and sentiment. Last week the Confederate flag was flying on Monument Avenue, and the town was alive with scoldings and whisperings. John Drinkwater's Robert E. Lee had just played to generous audiences in the capital of the South, and the tumult and the shouting had not died. Protests came. Lee had not been so stout. His beard was silky. It was not bristly. Historical events were not thus and so. In the midst of this fluttering and chittering, I sought out the lovely old frame house where Ellen Glasgow lives...
...exciting to see her come to life upon the stage. Though the authors (Walter Prichard Eaton and David Carb) protest volubly that the play is not a dramatization of Strachey, it is the readers of his book who will be particularly attracted. The play has caught all the quaint charm of the girl who developed retiring domesticity into a regal legend. It was Strachey who popularized the legend in America...
...Hotel Roosevelt, New Orleans, formerly the Grunewald, testifies testifies confidence in the distinctive charm of the old Creole city by hanging signed artists' proofs in the guest rooms, of ten etchings by Ronald Hargrave, of the Cabildo, the Cathedral, the old Absinthe House and other picturesque corners...