Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give her maid a bracelet. Paddy, the Next Best Thing (Fox) is very clearly Fox's notion of the next best thing to Metro's Peg 0' My Heart. It is an idyll of the Irish countryside, dripping with Hollywood blarney, Janet Gaynor's girlish charm and terms of endearment like "acushla...
...reproduction of Noel Coward's operetta about a girl who married a young musician, became a dancer at the Viennese cafe where he led the orchestra, attracted the attentions of a lecherous captain, had her heart broken when the captain stabbed her husband to death. With much more charm than most British musicomedies-which are inclined to be prim and lazy-Bitter Sweet is notable chiefly for its blonde leading lady, Anna Neagle, a onetime chorus girl. The producers of the cinema version of Bittersweet which Noel Coward insisted be made in England, chose her for the leading role...
...Hyde Park veranda under the warm spell of the President's personal charm, patient, loyal Secretary Hull forgot his injured pride, swore new allegiance to the Administration. Carefully he explained the whys & wherefores of the Conference collapse. Britain had been a disappointment. The foreign Press behaved outrageously. Europe wanted the best of every bargain. The President was most sympathetic, expressed complete confidence in his foreign minister, sent him away with a smile to prepare for another conference, that of the Pan-American Union in Montevideo in September...
...President Roosevelt the bureau had no particular charm. He hacked its appropriation in half. Foreign offices were reduced to 23 with a staff of only 77, the other 91 workers being summarily recalled (TIME, July 3). Ten domestic offices were discontinued and 145 employes let out. The headquarters staff in Washington was cut to 450. And last week the bureau got a new chief and a new mission...
...most aphorisms is indelibly associated with using selfish methods to become a millionaire, crept off to Paris to die. Granddaughter of the du Maurier who wrote Trilby, daughter of Actor Sir Gerald du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier writes with a great deal more solemnity and a good deal less charm than her grandfather, but she has aptitude and intelligence. The Progress of Julius, her third novel, is a florid 325-page portrait polished off with workmanlike aplomb...