Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years later he runs into her in Italy. They become lovers and quarrel. Dick goes back to the clinic, takes to drink, gradually goes to pot. His partner buys him out. Nicole, now completely cured, looks at her once-adored husband with new eyes, sees him rapidly losing his charm and his character. She takes the patient Tommy Barban as a lover, divorces Dick. He goes back to the U. S. and becomes a less & less respectable country doctor, in one small town after another...
...shrewd, suave, sometimes ruthless. The last time he made news in that capacity was when he appeared before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee last summer, admitted that he had paid no income tax for three years, flayed speculation and generally won the hard hearts of hostile Senators by his charm and grace (TIME, July 10). After dark he was Otto Kahn, patron of arts, bon vivant, first nighter at opera and theatre. As a capitalist he preached the threadbare maxims of success, pointed with pride to the fact that he was advanced in the little bank at Karlsruhe because...
...firmament of the Son of Heaven a brilliant new star has risen! Supple as the neck of the swan is the charm of her graceful form. Her black and sparkling eyes, in hours of ease, envelop and thrill that happy mortal allowed to see. O, Nguyen Huu Hao! Beautiful are all thy ways...
...page poem which he modestly calls "an American novel in verse." A patriotic poem, Hoxsie Sells His Acres sings not of arms and men but of Rhode Island land-lovers. A nostalgic tribute to a land that has seen its best days, it has fluency and charm, tells its low-keyed story with sentimental conviction. Walter Hoxsie's farm on the Rhode Island shore had been in his family for generations. He liked his life there, especially when his cousin Sarah came to live with him after his mother died, and never considered living anywhere else. But Hoxsie...
Loew's Orpheum--"Nana." The much publicized Anna Sten takes her debut via Zola; she has a certain peasant-like charm but seems miscast. Recommended to the Dietrich clan...