Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liberty (adapted from Michel Duran by Sidney Howard; Gilbert Miller, producer). The news about Ode to Liberty is that Ina Claire is now wearing her blonde hair piled in curls on top of her head like a charming Billiken. This hair dress and the Claire glamour manage to keep fluttering this airy nothing of a play. It concerns a Parisian lady who has left her overbearing banker husband for a small apartment of her own. There she unexpectedly finds herself playing unwilling hostess to a Communist fugitive (Walter Siezak, ingratiating young hero of Music in the Air). He is supposed...
...coach, it strikes me with due regard for Mr. Walsh's ability and personal charm that there can be no more experimentation without disaster. We have experimented long enough; now is the time to put Harvard football in the hands of a well-tried and recognized, expert. That assistant coaches are not always successful has been proved in a startling fashion by our own experience with Mr. Casey. Paul Donham...
...suited to Will Rogers. He seems to be almost wishing that he really were Judge Priest. Anita Louise is a Greuse-like decoration and as usual has no real part to show whether she can act or not. Tom Brown is young and enthusiastic. Berton Churchill has an irritating charm and ebullience all his own and is a perfect foil for the rugged honesty of the Priest famille...
...that only the Rockefellers and the Fords were richer than their Secretary of the Treasury; that he had made his wealth in aluminum, steel, coal, oil, banks; that he invested his profits in the finest of old masters; that personally he was a shy, modest man with a quiet charm. When he started to reduce the Public Debt, with a consequent reduction in taxation, enthusiastic G.O. Partisans tagged him with the silly title of "greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton." To cap his long service with a special honor President Hoover appointed Mr. Mellon Ambassador to the Court...
...odious Duke of Northumberland, plotting to transfer the royal crown of England from a Tudor to a Dudley brow, cared nothing for charm or scholarship. He dragged Lady Jane from her bower, gave her in marriage to his son, Guildford Dudley, and confounded for the nonce all other aspirants for the throne. Lady Jane swooned prettily when she heard that the Council in its pliancy had named her Queen of England. Meanwhile London could hear the rumbling of the distant drum, as the Eastern counties rose for Tudor Mary, and Catholic troops moved towards the metropolis. While Ridley harangued...