Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them to his class. The sleepy auditor is apt to wonder whether he is listening to the dean of the architectural school teaching Fine Arts, or Joseph P. Day auctioning off the Metropolitan Museum. Accordingly, this course is the dilettante's delight. For the socially ambitious sophomore who would charm the tea-tables of Brattle street, it is an unavoidable requirement...
...Legion gave him an uproariously warm welcome. Donning an overseas cap to show his membership in the organization, he stepped up amid a cyclone of cheers to the same Stadium rostrum where 15 months prior he had accepted the Presidential nomination. His easy manner, his smiling charm softened his sternest critic in an audience of 30,000. He drew loud laughter when he interjected: "My, you're a young looking bunch.'' National credit based on national unity was the theme of his speech. In defense of his pension cuts he declared...
...Marion Froude. When we first see her, she is waiting for something to happen; it does. She is asked by her first love, Leander, to paint his portrait; a young editor asks her to write her biography for a sensational weekly, for she is a famous personality whose charm exceeds her ability as an artist,--the public has heard that she is promiscuous. Leander, "Bunny" to Marion, hears that Marion has agreed to write the story of her life, all of it. I say no more of plot, for you will very likely have guessed the logical ending...
...newspaper fairy tale, the unanimous choice of the judges was No Second Spring, first published novel of an unknown 28-year-old English girl. Some readers may think the book a queer selection for these days, but many may find in its stilted, sampler-like pattern an old-fashioned charm. Allison was many years younger than Hamish, her stalwart, fiery-souled preacher-husband. It had never occurred to her to doubt that she loved him: she had several children to prove it, and in Scotland in those times (early 19th Century) speculation about "love'' was not encouraged...
...home before she settles on the producer. In this empty and ungrateful part, her first in straight drama, the gay and knowing smile of Queenie Smith softened the hearts of Manhattan audiences. Famed for her Metropolitan Opera Company dancing, her musicomedy singing. Miss Smith has a sly, twittering charm far too real and well-mannered for the role she had to play...