Word: charming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chaos of opinion which distrubs the Modern Church is the theme for a series of brilliant, penetrating and able sketches of English Churchmen. The charm of stylistic finesse, literary taste, and epigrammatic terseness can best be appreciated in the books of A Gentleman With a Duster when we compare them with the turgid, club-footed fumbling of the author of the pitiful Mirrors of Washington. There is a difference between a blunderbuss and a Lewis...
...himself or to fit into the scene. He has improved tremendously since joining the company, however. Another player, who is making rapid progress under Mr. Jewett's instruction is Miss Standing. Her performance in what might easily have been a mawkishly sentimental part, was full of grace and charm. Miss Cleveland made a very effective boy scout...
...latest New York "best seller". His scope is indefinite. Nor is he a vague romantic, blinded by fancy to the disagreeable realities of situations and personality, for he treats each new topic with a calculating steadiness that is pleasing, as much in its solid sanity as in its unique charm...
...suggested memorial quadrangle, a group of dormitories, ought to satisfy both the utilitarians and the severe esthetes. Harvard needs new dormitories, and Princeton and Yale have shown with what charm and dignity they can be designed.... Another assemblage of dormitories might be as gracious and splendid a memorial as the university could raise to its sons nobly dead. New York Times...
...professional in spirit even though amateur in letter. The Boston Herald comments editorially at some length. It is feared that "Victories may come to cost more than they are worth, more in money and more also in the dulling of the fine edge of moral sensitiveness that makes the charm of so many college boys today..... The great end is to keep the game and at the same time to keep from the violation not only of the letter but of the spirit of the rules that are intended to lift college sport above suspicion...