Word: charming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nebraska a Scandinavian name has an almost superlative political charm. Of the six top state officers below Governor, three are named Johnson, two Swanson...
...Fields, looking worn-&-torn but as noble as Stone Mountain, macerates a boozy song around his cigar butt and puts on his achingly funny pool exhibition with warped cues. Donald O'Connor continues to prove himself a Mickey Rooney with some unspoiled, big-Adam's-apple charm to boot. Orson Welles, as a nice parody of a magician, saws Marlene Dietrich in two and watches her better half walk off with the act. Sophie Tucker, the Manassa Mauler of her field, shouts a 1½-entendre salute to the boys through a meat-grinder larynx. Dinah Shore, singing...
Whitewashed behind the ears and rouged in Technicolor, this friendly piece of grave robbery substitutes drawling charm for the rawboned, murderous innocence of the frontier. A pretty Indian girl (Linda Darnell) teaches Bill Cody how to write a presentable letter to his pretty Eastern bride-to-be (Maureen O'Hara). Likewise prettily, in a coy ritual with a blanket, they plight their troth. When Bill and his wife break up there is no hint of the fact that he was quite a bronco buster with the ladies, nor does he follow history by accusing his wife of trying...
...lawyer, shrewd polemicist, Cambridge-educated Bose speaks and writes with logic and persuasion. In Indian politics, he used to rank at least No. 3, after Gandhi and Nehru, and for some he still is No. 1. His theme of Samyavada (equality) with no room for the idle rich has charm for millions of unhappy Indians. He emphasizes a single-party state and authoritarian discipline...
...Carol of Rumania, had her face lifted in Mexico by a Manhattan plastic surgeon-said to be lifter by previous royal appointment to Rumania's Queen Marie and the Duchess of Windsor. His 13 stitches were removed after eleven days, were reported to have restored the old Lupescutaneous charm...