Word: charming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Superman Enterprises and a dozen comic-book publishers had applied to cover the big show, and were turned down; representatives of Air Aces, a bi-monthly pulp comic, and Charm, a fashion slick, were accepted. No group was more peeved at being slighted than the British press, which was given a quota of three newsmen; Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia each had as many. Russia and nine other nations were allowed one each...
Dividing the bill with Oedipus-and seeming as incongruous as a fashionable charm dangling from a severely classic bracelet-was Sheridan's 18th Century burlesque of the theater, The Critic. Ragging the playwright's vanity and the critic's venom, kidding the knee breeches off the bombast that then held the stage, The Critic is frequently amusing but fatally long. The Old Vic gave it as bright a production as Broadway is likely to see, and tossed in perhaps the most amazing quick-change that Broadway has ever seen. Half an hour after he had vanished...
...these discharges of verbal grapeshot infuriate Crump's enemies, they charm and stimulate his admiring friends and followers. For Ed Crump, a ruthless, rawhiding, ramrodding political boss, is also a dramatic figure molded in the fighting Tennessee tradition of Andy Jackson, Sam Houston, and Nolichucky Jack Sevier-and thousands of Tennesseans love...
...speak the charm's busted...
...sign that they will soon disappear." The child takes the chart home, daily compares the real warts with those on the sketch, notes their shrinkage. Treatment is not confined to the hands. For the nine-year-old daughter of a skeptical dermatologist, Dr. Vollmer was able to charm away a faceful of warts in six weeks...