Word: charming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mary's charm is enhanced with the advancing years and the disappearing curls...
...personality of Willa Cather is characterized chiefly by firmness. She is positive, determined, a trifle withdrawn. Her charm is undeniable, yet it has the air of being at times carefully reserved for a greater occasion. She has no great interest in the small affairs of the world, yet she is gracious and her opinions, when vouchsafed, are well considered and delivered with positiveness. She would find folly a difficult companion. This precision of thought a.nd character illuminates her writing. It is, perhaps, what makes My Antonia and A Lost Lady the works of art which they...
...remember seeing Hecht in his own house, a figure of some domesticity, with his wife and children; relating rapidly anecdotes gleaned from a rather grotesque variety of facts which he has gathered from years of constant, voracious, exotic reading. He was really a person of much charm. I looked forward to his first novel. Erik Dorn was a disappointment to me. It had passages of power; but its vulgarity and carelessness overbalanced them. Gargoyles I liked even less. Hecht is a brilliant, flaunting, ironic and not yet so very stable figure. What he does in the future seems...
Gregory Kelly (Willie Baxter in Seventeen) does remarkable things with the love-sick lad. His halting, almost plaintive, delivery; his queru lous monotone; his unaffected charm make the part almost as much his as Mr. Tarkington...
...conclusive proposition that the country wasn't suffering under a curse anyway. Naturally the audience voted overwhelmingly for the negative. And Lady Astor concluded the proceedings by saying : " Here were brilliant young men not believing a word they said, and yet saying it with wit and charm. It made one feel a dread about the future of a democracy." But the debate held in the interests of charity, not faith or hope...