Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vain for the reviewer to twist and turn phrases in an attempt to catch the curious interest and charm of this autobiography of man and of nation. But he can at least promise that in reading it, there will be no waste and no regret...
Anne Green's brother, Julian Green, writes his very Frenchy, careful, depressing novels in French; has to be translated for the benefit of U. S. left-wing-readers. Not so his cheerful sister. So sprightly, charming, unrealistic a novelist is she that her first novel (The Selbys} was a U. S. best-seller in spite of her brother's heavy reputation. Reader, I Married Him pushes sprightliness, charm, unrealism even further...
...dark secret to the untravelled, Africa is now so much before the eyes and ears of the world, we feel perhaps that bounties should be shifted from man-eating lions and placed upon the heads of sensationalist writers who seek to debunk the country of every lingering element of charm. But to those of us who first heard a leopard snarl or the Ashango tomtoms beat in the pages of a Paul Du Chaillu book, Africa will remain the magic land forever. Now appears for the first time a life account of the man who had this ability of bewitching...
...penguin? It is almost a leer. That is the crowning point of resemblance. ... I have been speaking of . . . the woman over 25, the breeder of the race. My indictment is against the vast American woman. . . . The young girl is different, with this boyish form in which I find great charm...
...charm of the insurance plan is that it allows each man to undertake that which he feels able to do and yet involves to obligation on his part. If the plan were accepted there would be men in the class who would be interested in buying $10,000.00 insurance and who would be willing to have one-tenth of the dividends paid to the Fund. There will be men in the class who would be interested in buying a $50,000.00 policy and who would be willing to have 50 percent of the dividends paid to the class. There would...