Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overcome it, they must be the butt. An equal share of credit, however, must go to the Democratic campaign managers. Aggressive from the start, James Farley outlined a program that would appeal to every class of people; speakers were admirably fitted to audiences, texts to local interests. The personal charm and sympathy of his candidate, the confident progression of his campaign, contrasted favorably with the cold mechanical personality, the franctic last minute efforts of Mr. Hoover. More-over, to a nation oppressed with taxes and disgusted with the failure of the Eighteenth Amendment "Immediate Repeal" had far more meaning than...
...gayest of all gay musical films has come again to the Fine Arts Theatre. This German operetta, with its inexpensive sets, its modest casting, its imperfect sound-recording, carries exuberance and spontaneity unknown to Hollywood. American films may be suaver, better sung, more pretentious, but charm evades them all. For charm is a volatile essence to which the American temperament and the Hollywood system of incubation remains unkind...
...enough; that George White has lovelier ladies in his chorus than the Gilbertians, and more effective stage properties, solid pudding arguments not to be denied. But they forget to add, that, whatever the Roman splendors of George White may be, the Savoy Operas have an evasive, indefinable, yet robust charm...
...without opposition to take the posts without opposition, but confess we may be wrong. But, particularly in a game so cleanly and decisively won as that of Saturday, it would have been an act of good sportsmanship to lot the Brown men carry off the kindling unmolested. The chief charm of football is its good sportsmanship. The Saturday aftermath was not pleasingly fragrant. -Boston Traveller...
...there will always be about the pages of the Atlantic a certain rodcoming charm, the charm of an essay tradition of particular grace and rambling interest, of pages of excellent poetry, and of a truly civilized outlook on life. "Fall of visionary ideals, impressed by a certain dogmatic scholarship, and when not riding any one of its literary hobbies, profoundly intellectual," a twentieth century critic described it, it was a fair and keen analysis...