Word: charming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. The Book of My Youth is a vivid and sincere picture of the arduous and unflinching struggle toward maturity of a powerful and independent personality. For the most part it may be fairly said to lack the charm and grace with which Anatole France, for instance, recounts his early years?the manner is solid rather than suave?much of the description, were it written of a fictitious character, would lack the fortuitous interest it attains from its concern with Sudermann himself...
...tonality. Throughout the dancing stands out, "Liza" is a dancing show. The finales are parables of pep. The cast is fairly popping with pep. And the orchestra, with rhythmic and clever orchestration, catches the spirit of jazz triumphant; "blues" paramount, and echoes it in syncopations of variety and charm...
...profound banality! And yet there is undoubtedly a charm in such adept periphrasis as this...
...older man relies largely on precedent and experience. The young man, with no experience to rely on, and small knowledge of precedent, is more willing to try anything once. Certainly the European nations have belied the imputation of age by their eagerness to try something which has the charm of novelty; America has shown the world that it is governed by precedent and conservatism...
...meet Mrs. Rinehart in her Washington home is to see a hostess of charm, and to hear a raconteuse of ability. Like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, she has the rare gift of dramatizing fact so that it has the thrill of a mystery story. Dark, faultlessly dressed, with graceful nervous hands and the deep eyes that are at once penetrating and sympathetic, she is a beautiful and a forceful woman...