Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea was not exactly my own, but all the same it worked like a charm...
...theatre because they themselves are all too much a part of the period. In a specific discussion of the paradox of American, theatrical realism, he speaks of it as, "--a fable worthy of Grimm in a manner worthy of Sinclair Lewis." Even Philip Barry, whose comedy has the charm and authenticity of the Restoration, descends to preaching and farce, so characteristic of the drama of sensibility. His writing has the cold politeness of wit and brilliance that is associated with true comedy, but, as Mr. Brown adds, "--Mr. Barry's comedies are of a kind which cry into handkerchiefs instead...
...private performances in the Rogers Building tonight and tomorrow night "Honey Holler", by Keith Mackaye, will be presented for the first time in the Cambridge School of the Drama's maiden production. The play is a placid drama of unusual charm, using the Connecticut hills along the New York border as a back ground. The center inner stage in occupied by the set of a house about which the action will take place, but which is designed to open in two leaves permitting the audience to view the interior in the last...
...teaching at the University identifies him as one who represented the essence of the Harvard spirit. His distinguished heritage and accomplishments as an historian are reasons for his fame in the public eye, but those closer to him will feel the loss of a man of great natural charm as well as of one who was a gifted scholar and teacher...
...went on a journey. But he supplies you with the same kind, so he makes a good companion. Traveler Baerlein speaks foreign languages like a native, and everywhere he went people would drop whatever they were doing to engage him in extended and animated chats. Such was the charm of his tongue or his appearance that a chambermaid in a hotel, a respectable woman with a son, left her job to go walking with him. Other occasional companions were a gypsy fiddler, a bishop, a mayor. Once a beautiful peasant woman fell in love with him for a night, begged...