Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catolica. When he becomes a shadow again at the end of three days, Prince Sirki takes Grazia with him, wrapped in his cloak. The impossibility of assaying the philosophic content, if any, of the play by Alberto Casella from which this picture was adapted does not diminish the charm of Death Takes a Holiday. It remains a serious poetic riddle, imperfect, thoughtful, delicately morbid...
...lacks, however, none of the graceful qualities of his people, and, his Slavie charm over the tea-cups and the dinner table having at all times kept pace with his Teutonic intensity on the lecturer's platform, he has become socially one of the most popular members of the faculty...
...lacks, however, none of the graceful qualities of his people, and, his Slavie charm over the tea-cups and the dinner table having at all times kept pace with his Teutonic intensity on the lecturer's platform, he has become socially one of the most popular members of the faculty...
...Peterkin, as in "Scarlet Sister Mary," treats her subject with great delicacy. her familiarity with the dialect and temperament of the Southern plantation negroes is everywhere evident, and there is in her manner a great deal of the idyllic charm which distinguishes the dialect stories of Joel Chandler Harris. Happily this book does not attempt an expose of social conditions. Rather it catches an aspect of the American Scene which will not long be with us, and one which literature has seldom illumined with any degree of veracity...
...lost arts is that of writing verse in "heroic couplets." Though the 18th Century thought it the only wear for poets, it has since dropped completely out of fashion, is now never used as a serious poetic form. For the English, especially, it still has a half-humorous academic charm. Author Laver, onetime winner of Oxford's Newdigate Poetry Prize, comports himself with fair grace in these borrowed 18th Century garments but never rises to the level of Pope's elegance or acid...