Word: charming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assistant. From the day a boy enters St. Mark's at the age of twelve as a first former he is always conscious of Mrs. Thayer's care and thoughtfulness. For 36 years on an average of five nights a week she has given her time and charm to entertaining the boys of the various six forms, and to numberless returning graduates, their wives and children she invariably offers the warm welcome of a home. To St. Mark's graduates Dr. and Mrs. Thayer are synonymous names with that of St. Mark's and St. Mark...
...point is, that if we can keep our Houses from being hot-houses, they may give us not just collegettes, but more college. Old Jawn may have less reason to feel indifferent, it is true, and may charm the world with fewer dilettantes. But we might have more good football. We might even play Princeton again, who knows? But we must eat out. That is some of the time. John Bliss...
...warn you all not to believe sensational books or biased newspaper articles,'' said the Chief Justice severely. "A great many of the people I met, both in public and in private, possessed rare culture and charm. I was impressed by the refinement of American home life. I was particularly impressed by the respect which the men show their womenfolk. The Americans are a fine people. Let no one tell you differently." Since September, Dublin playgoers have been learning from Ever the Twain, a play by Irish Dramatist Lennox Robinson, that the U. S. is a land of gumchewers...
...Charm. A rustic soda jerker keeps his Manhattan-bent sweetheart by purchasing a book on Charm and pursuing its elegant policies in the hometown parlors...
Pompous Beniamino Gigli was better as Don Ottavio; Elisabeth Rethberg sang primly as Donna Elvira, Editha Fleischer prettily as the peasant Zerlina. Credit for a satisfying performance, however, belonged not so much to the singers as to Conductor Tullio Serafin, who gave the score a glancing, crackling charm...