Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From some of the issues immediately before and after the first of the year he learned that there had been three prominent entries for place as man of the year with strong boosters for each of them. There was Cleopatra, who it would seem was a woman of unusual charm; there was her boy friend, Mark Antony, so fascinated by her that he was neglecting affairs of public business to woo her; and there was one Novresibus, an officeholder who had just been re-elected in a landslide in which he had received 99 & 44/100 percent of the votes...
Although the public is just as concerned in the length of the strike and its results as the original parties, its machinery for intervention is feeble Governor Murphy's desperate efforts to start up negotiations were based on nothing stronger than his personal charm, which inevitably was not enough to conciliate the intemperate leaders, one backed by millions of workers, the other speaking for hundreds of millions of dollars of captial. Section 7a of N.R.A., providing collective bargaining, would now rescue the corporation which was so jubilant at its overthrow. The law would give labor a strong organization...
Sirs: You have indeed made a fine, and most appropriate selection for Woman of the Year, and what a sublime face, what a God-given charm, with a divine right to use it on king or commoner alike, has Wally. It approaches that of either the Madonna, or Mona Lisa herself. Who shall reproach the abdicated, uncrowned King of all hearts of all nations? For such a face, and such a love, would not any real man abdicate a thousand thrones, and reject a thousand crowns? With her love as his own, might not such a man take...
...tearjerkers, the top director of tearjerkers, the screen's No. i tragedienne and the industry's current male box-office sensation. The result, against the lush background of Art Director Cedric Gibbons' notion of 19th Century Paris, equipped with generous measures of sorrow, pictorial beauty, charm, plot, glamour and audience appeal, amounts to a Camillennium...
Packed with more downright charm and fun than any other show on Broadway, High Tor droops only occasionally when Miss Ashcroft or an incidental Indian has to declaim some of Playwright Anderson's indefatigable verse. As to acting, more important theft than the stage bank robbery is Actor Charles D. Brown's outright steal of the whole show in the part of De Witt, the oldest and saltiest Dutchman. For years cast as a theatrical cop or robber, Actor Brown comes into his own at last when, in pantaloons and a huge hat, he comes to grips with...