Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barry, the creator of such sophisticated dramas as Paris Bound and The Animal Kingdom, "added a great deal to building up the men characters." The men characters, all of whom are undergraduates except for a lonely college professor, may not have much maturity, but they are well stocked with charm and witty sayings. To one, for instance, a girl's college is "a place where they teach the boas to constrict...
...automobile, dropping in at country stores and farmhouses with a smiling, "I'm Alf Landon,'' sitting down for a talk about crops, weather and politics. Last week his first vacation trip in three years gave Alf Landon his first chance to display his close-range charm as Republican Presidential nominee...
Ironically at this rearmament Conference, the delegates elected as their secretary obliging A. M. Agnidis of Greece, chief of the League of Nations Disarmament Section. "His leaving Disarmament for Rearmament is just one of those little contradictions which lend charm to life.'' drawled lanky, Mongol-featured Rumanian Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu, provoking the Conference's first laugh. Everyone else was willing to have Conference sessions open to the public, but the 7th Earl Stanhope successfully demanded that they should be secret...
...fewer nurses for the sick and more working on the preventive end of the job." Despite the deadly seriousness of their meetings, the 10,000 nurses in Los Angeles last week enjoyed some diversions. United Air Lines offered a stewardess job to the graduate nurse "most perfect in looks, charm, poise, intelligence." Winner: Helen Clark, 22, well-dressed Tucson, Ariz, brunette. Eugenist Paul Popenoe of Pasadena's Institute of Family Relations, father of four, stirred bitter merriment among the nurses by pontificating: "To increase the number of superior children each year, educated young people should be encouraged to marry...
...well as the mockery which used to animate Critic Henry Mencken when he wrote about backwoods emotions. In Chautauqua, fountainhead of the adult education movement of 40 years ago, Author Carmer found much that was pleasant, picturesque, inane, a disproportion of old people, a general air of faded, genteel charm. In Lily Dale, centre for spiritualists, he spent the most fantastic day in his life going to seances, listening to spirit rappings, interviewing mediums...