Word: charming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Easy Aces. Whatever happened, it looked like the end of Lescot's political career. His impenetrable affability had been equal-till last week-to all occasions. A suave dictator behind a constitutional façade, chubby, pleasure-loving Elie Lescot had always paid his way with charm. As Ambassador to the U.S.. his easy style of living almost got him into trouble. When his Government sent him $60,000 for arms purchases, he squandered $35,000 before a gun was bought, was saved only by a check from Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo...
Mary Martin's first stage appearance since "One Touch of Venus" is a welcome one. Although her voice is not strong, her charm and personality, to revive two senile cliches, serve to make convincing a role which no modern theatre-goer can view without twinges of skepticism. Yul Brynner, still handicapped by a notice able accent, does his best opposite Miss Martin in a somewhat sterile part. The other 45 actors named in the program are mainly character bit players who are competent but have little chance to become outstanding; perhaps Rex O'Mailey was most noticeable because...
...picture opens, Corporal Hargrove and his muddy unit are trying to push a truck out of a ditch in France; when it ends they are deep in the same trouble. In the interim Hargrove has overwhelmed a French town by mere awkward charm, been energetically pursued by the mayor's vivacious daughter (Jean Porter), taken a number of Nazis prisoner and been elaborately swindled, along with Private Mulvehill...
Washington was charming in its Christmas wrapping. But around the Capitol and the buildings of state the charm was only brick-deep...
...another fat poke. He had just sold a claim to Campbell Red Lake Gold Mines and split $800,000 in cash and stock with three partners. (Much of the credit, he felt, was due an 80-year-old Cree Indian named Jake whom he considers his good-luck charm.) This time Prospector Campbell invested in more durable things than wheat futures. Among his new acquisitions: two planes (with a private pilot), a fully equipped yacht, a saxophone (which his wife abhorred "because it makes the wolves howl"), and the first player piano to be brought into the Red Lake district...