Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duties, but together with his second in command, Dario (Power House) Berizzi, also of the swimming team, he has already planned an elaborate program. Irked by past sloppiness of Harvard cheer leaders, he intends to put on a polished performance this fall, one that may lack the charm of the old individualistic antics so traditional to Soldiers Field, one that will feature team work...
This mourning was real for Joe Robinson. Although he was not a good fellow in the backslapping line, although he had no facile charm or unusual mental gifts, although he was a downright man and snorted at his opponents, his fighting courage was deeply respected, his grim rectitude unquestioned. He was above demagoguery. Tom Heflin in his time and Huey Long in his, both inspired Joe Robinson's contempt and he voiced it so frankly that he made them his particular enemies. He had two virtues prized above all others by professional politicians: his word was good...
...think of her Conversation in terms of the theatre, but she appends an index of first lines so that segments may be read as single poems. Readers will immediately observe 1) that the most feminine living poet has attempted not one but several distinct masculine idioms, with considerable charm but only here and there with success; 2) that the Millay talent for epigrammatic verse, which endeared her long ago to a liberated generation, has profited by colloquial language and a brisk long line carrying echoes of Ogden Nash more often than Shakespeare. Critics will agree that while many...
Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg. While President Roosevelt went off to the Jefferson Islands Club for his weekend "charm school'' party (see col. j), the van Zeelands stayed for a round of Washington parties, visited New York and it was announced that Premier van Zeeland would return this week...
...chair under a big locust tree with a white-washed trunk, and each morning as four retired submarine chasers brought a flock of Congressmen to the island, he presided over something resembling an old-fashioned political picnic. Republican Senator McNary, not invited, sarcastically described the performance as a "weekend charm school." During the evenings which the President spent on the island with six members of his Cabinet and several Democratic leaders of Congress, some serious politics may have been talked but during the day he was surrounded by shirt-sleeved Congressmen eating off long tables on the lawn, drinking beer...