Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...papers, by request of the Admiralty. Alien news services were encouraged to transmit via London every fact they could glean about the sudden, sensational and unannounced dispatching of the British Home Fleet, which was scheduled last week to be maneuvering off Scotland, to join the British Mediterranean Fleet. With charm and polish, Admiralty officials said that they "really did not know" the whereabouts of Britain's famed super-warboats, the Hood, the Rodney and the Nelson...
...desperate communication received yesterday by the CRIMSON from Vogue, leading feminine fashion magazine, it was revealed that cosmetics manufacturers, charm schools, dancing academies, all, all are wasting their time. The only important thing in woman's relations with man is clothes. "A girl's day," the managing editor of Vogue confessed to the CRIMSON, "can be made or blasted by masculine comment on her clothes...
Thereafter, the comedy in The Goose and the Gander consists of the efforts of the guests at the lodge to conceal their identities. The picture's suspense is contributed by the jewel thieves' attempts to retrieve their swag. Its charm resides in the fact that George Brent can wrinkle his nose whereas Kay Francis cannot pronounce "r." Good shot: a bedazzled police chief (Spencer Charters) trying to make the company at the lodge explain what they...
...English Literature at Williams, then at Princeton, then at Harvard, he gained a reputation as one of the best-loved members of the coterie of Great Names in American Literary life. In his biography, published now in Bliss Perry's seventy fifth year, he re-creates the mellow charm of those years of his life...
Aside from a single Tristan und Isolde, poorly sung but flamingly conducted by Walter, Salzburg this year heard little of Wagner. It liked best the effete Viennese gaiety of Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, the bubbling Italian gaiety of Verdi's Falstaff, the pure charm of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte, Il Seraglio, Figaro. Toscanini electrified audiences with Beethoven's Fidelio but he also made a great point of reviving a disused ''Reformation" symphony by Mendelssohn, banned in Germany because its composer was a Jew. This he played last Sunday in a broadcast...