Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandsons. But he was less diffident than their father about coaxing them into his business. Having given up hope for Curtis Bok, he enlisted the aid of his daughter in gaining the ear of her younger son, Gary William. Gary, who resembles his big brother in quiet charm, mild humor and Dutch stubbornness, has followed him to Williams, into Deke and Gargoyle. He shared his brother's fondness for beer & ale and baseball, and he pitched on the varsity...
...Harvard Yard, besides being a venerable area, a blessed couple of acres, owns that peculiar charm which belongs to things and institutions which have never known the labelling of a surveying committee, a place with its own ancient and particular name. Rough earthy Anglo-Saxon names, like the "Yard," "Rotten Row," Cape Cod," have an indigenous correctness which latinic titles ("Esplanade," "Boulevard" etc) can never claim, especially when transported to foreign soil...
...Hepburn role of Antiope, dashing young warrior and gallant lover. This reviewer last saw the lovely patrician Miss Landi as a major Saint in Cecil DeMille's evangelistic triumph, "The Sign of the Cross". At that time he decided that Miss Landi had few equals for quiet feminine charm, for quiet sincere acting, and self-effacing hard work. To pick her for the leading light of the Amazonian younger set was as much of a mistake as it might be to put Douglas Fairbanks in the part of Sapian. Yet she was capable, spirited, and a success...
Sirs: . You inform us the pronunciation of those easily had Russian boys is "Mmmdivani." If I may be so bold. sir, let me say that now it is quite clear about their charm. It's the "Mmm" - three letters strung together, which, when uttered by women of all ages, in all languages, say all there is to say. FANNING MILES HEARON Spartanburg...
...caused us to love, cherish and admire her as we have few, if any, before her. Not only does she neither drink nor smoke, but if given half a chance by a morbidly curious, thoughtless world she could, without half trying, win it completely. An innate sweetness and native charm amply justify the plea of a justly proud father, "Why can't she be loved for herself...