Word: charming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...charm and remarkable interest of these arts lie in their intimate aspect of some of the greatest masters, their portraits of Renaissance men and we men, and their revelation of the Renaissance spirit. The Exhibition will last from Monday to Saturday only...
...legislative program he simply wound up. His geniality, his personal charm, his good social background, will be advanced in his favor?and against them will be set the suspicion that he has all the cautious conservatism of the ruling rich. He will be called a strong man who fights battles for the plain people and a weak man who never took the unpopular side to his own cost. He will be damned for being too Wet and damned for being...
...Supervia's Orpheus is probably the bulkiest, most troublesome talisman on record. But nearly all musicians are superstitious, carry some sort of charm. Arturo Toscanini keeps sewed in his dress clothes' pocket a picture of his three children taken when they were little and a visiting card on which Composer Giueseppe Verdi sent him New Year's greetings shortly before he died. Caruso used to have every costume made with two little pockets on either side. In them he kept vials of salt water and if he felt thirsty he turned his back on the audience, took a drink. Soprano...
Memorial volumes are usually disappointing; this is the exception. Here is a selection of prose and poetry of interest, and, in the case of the verse, of charm. Rarely do we find a young man whose technique was so finished, whose lyrical expression was so singularly free from the trite and the trivial. The consistency of the verse speaks of care in composition, but seldom are the marks of the task visible. The prose, including "Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester and English Humanism" (the Potter Prize essay for 1928), and a number of stories, is adequate; the verses, however, make...
Other writers, noticing his marked success, followed after him. Maurois replaced the manifold volumes of Monnypenny and Buckle with a slim life of Disraeli full of anecdotes, personal revelations and a little history. Many people were forced, by the charm of the writer, to learn about a statesman of whom they had known virtually nothing. Ludwig in Germany began turning out his various biographies of almost any prominent figure that came to mind. There are many others who have performed similar public services...