Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Statesman Munters, conversing easily in Russian with Statesman Stalin, noted the Dictator's expansive natural charm, coupled with earthy peasant shrewdness and no trace of being a Communist intellectual. Mr. Munters, knowing how many abstruse, voluminous Communist tracts have been printed with Joseph Stalin as the author, tried to draw him into intellectual discourse. Invariably J. Stalin's rough and ready ideas, questions and replies had to do with quick facts, not theory. His queries about Latvia, Statesman Munters was distressed to find, showed an all but complete lack of knowledge of the facts of Latvian history, since...
...president. Vice president is Douglas E. Lurton. onetime supervising editor for Fawcett Publications, and managing editor of Literary Digest during its last year. Edited by Douglas Lurton, Your Life is a handbook of inspirational prescriptions for the sick-in-heart, is neatly cataloged to cover Life. Health, Love. Fortune, Charm. Children, Conversation and Words. Sample suggestions...
...picture of Denver and the Rocky Mountains which make up the locale of the tale is vividly drawn, if perhaps almost a little too modern for credulity. Possibly this is part of the charm of the book since, although we of today cannot imagine such happenings in a Twentieth Century such happenings in a Twentieth Century world, we nevertheless realize the similarity of character and emotion which has persisted through the rough and oftentimes crude period of our early history. Because these men are not historical characters and therefore were not great and unusual men, we appreciate even more that...
...actors, neatly running the gamut of middle age and youth, inspired duffer and embittered worldling. As the inventor's crony, Russell Collins (The Group Theatre's "Johnny Johnson") gives a compelling exhibition of bluff, whimsical idealism. Lillian Gish portrays girlhood and harassed middle age with charm and feeling, gives the finest performance of her stage career. With its deftly assembled cast enjoying a field day of acting, a kindly audience forgave Playwright Anderson for once again drawing it mild...
...last time Henry Fonda appeared on the Broadway stage he was skippering an Erie Canal boat in The Farmer Takes a Wife. His sleepy-eyed, lethargic charm has since done him yeoman service in Hollywood but somehow seems a bit too somnolent now that he is back in Manhattan on his sailboat. Doris Dalton makes a pleasingly limber heroine...