Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid for his service at Geneva in drumming up votes by promoting him to "one of the five ministries which carry the rank and pay of a full Secretary of State." Eden was being mentioned as Secretary of State for Dominions, with hopes voiced that if any Briton can charm Irish Free State President Eamon de Valera into complacence, charming Captain Eden can. Though all this seemed most premature, British manufacturers of headgear known as an "Eden hat," factually reported that last week London shops abruptly stopped reordering...
...risk having audiences discover their own laughs in its sentimental climaxes. Instead, with the aid of a sympathetic script, by Howard Estabrook and William Hurlbut. he gave it a straight-forward treatment, emphasized the backgrounds rather than the plot. The result is that Way Down East has a disarming charm which is almost a satisfactory substitute for the emotional impact of its famed original...
...fail. . . . The impact of his personality on men, women and children far from the vicinity of Mussolini's physical presence is astounding. Far away, even to the uttermost confines of the kingdom, beyond the hills and fields and marshes separating them from Rome, even beyond the ocean, the charm works. A businesslike Party official, hearing that I was to visit the Duce, exclaimed enraptured 'Oh, thou in beatitude...
...then there is little Warren King, a 135-pound ball of fire who has electrified the Dartmouth stands throughout this season with his brilliant open field running, a watch-charm back who caught the Bruins of Brown University unawares and romped through their ranks for a touchdown. And Pop Nairne, the Poly Prep star who has yet to scale the heights of Dartmouth gridiron fame, and Capt, Kenney, a bruising blocker, cagey quarter, and Gordon Bennett, a tackle already mentioned by Allison Danzig as a candidate for All-American honors...
Walter Pidgeon as Nordoff is the perfect artist--highly emotional, moody, egoistical, but a boy at heart. Ruth Weston plays Mrs. Nordoff with such charm and mature talent that she runs off with the play. Glenn Anders is given all too little to do, but succeeds in playing a manager who doesn't cavort about with the extravagant boisterousness we have been forced to suffer from the run of managers, performing the role of Nordoff's manager and man Friday with quiet charm which is a grand relief from the extravagant boisterousness which most players lend to such a part...