Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week at Williamsburg, Va., whose Colonial charm the Rockefeller family has been busy restoring, opened another Rockefeller-built R-K-O film theatre seating 560 patrons. This property is a very tiny drop indeed in Mr. Rockefeller's bucket of show business holdings. Recently the Rockefellers acquired 100,000 shares of R-K-O securities "as a result of rental adjustments" at Radio City. Mr. Rockefeller is also the handle on a whip whose popper is another entertainment chain. He is reputed one of the largest stockholders in Chase National Bank. Chase National is the banking sponsor...
...Egypt could see only fraud and treachery in the heroes of the Iliad. And the Virgin Queen herself, in the midst of devious intriguing with a half-hostile, half amorous Europe, while cursing her courtiers and badgering her maids-in-waiting, could turn her hand to lyrics of evanescent charm...
...consider an extension into the realm of maternity. When "Bacchanalian Arts 1a, 1b, 1d," grace dull course indexes, Universities may find a way to fill the cup of learning. "Fat rats, thin rats, scrawny rats" will throng after the elusive flute. "Heaviside Calculus" and "Molecular Forces" possess a soporific charm all their own, but who can foretell the rush of "black rats, white rats, and brown rats," to worship at the feet of a seer who could outline the indefinable incompatibility of champagne and muligataway...
Undoubtedly there are some fond parents who secretly or openly hope that college may produce a charming daughter. As they survey the schools, they may find one place which stamps students with a definite personality and if it is the type which satisfies their definition of charm, the beloved daughter's fate is signed. Women's colleges have within the last decade declared an aggressive campaign for individuality among students. An attempt to alienate the type-situation is essayed through the cultivation of the critical spirit. There are everywhere, however, characters easily impressed and characters capable of impressing...
Courses offered at any college are not made to aid the doting father in his aspirations for his offspring. A "personality factory" must suffer the fate of "spinster factory." Should we perhaps advocate an institution to teach girls to sit gracefully by the fire--alone and another, to develop charm--for father? Radcliffe News-Daily...