Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though he does not yet know it, Artist William Edmondson's tombstones are all tattle directe. Cut directly in the stone without preliminary modeling, they are all small, because he has not yet been able to buy a sizable block. Their charm lies in the simple-hearted directness with which Sculptor Edmondson has chiseled out woolly-headed angels, rams, dumpy little preachers, lawyers and ladies with bustles...
Despite the spadework that has been put in by undergraduates to secure this privilege, it is hard to think of having it used as a duty. Rather the Freshmen who avail themselves of it will find themselves amply repaid by the good food, comfortable surroundings, and the general charm of House life that they will share. The trouble of looking up some older acquaintance to sign one's meal slip will be well balanced by the chance to make acquaintances among the upperclasses and to know the character of each House by something more than guesswork and hearsay...
...Charm: "Did you know there is glamor in your great toe?"-Arthur Murray in "Walk Gracefully...
...anomaly. For years Mr. Cohan has pleased his audiences by playing the soft-hearted, slightly baffled middle-aged man so accurately described by "Dear Old Daddy," the name of his 1935 offering. He makes no change in his ways in the current piece. And so we find the vigorous charm of the President turned into fuzzy sentimentality. That certainly isn't imitation, nor is it satire...
...restrictions--one of the most irksome of which is that coats and notebook must be checked in the cloakroom across the hall--but an effort is made to show the student that the rules are not arbitrary, that by observing them he is maintaining for himself and others the charm and nacfulness of the library. Morever, when he infringes one of these little regulations, he is not made to feel, as he is in the reading room above, that by his negligence he has jeopardized the future of Harvard College...