Word: charming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Converse Morgan and Catherine Adams Morgan; $50,000 apiece to his secretary, John Axten, and Director Belle da Costa Greene of the Pierpont Morgan Library in Manhattan; $25,000 to butler Henry Physick; $20,000 apiece to valet Bernard Stewart, chauffeur Charles Robertson; his father's watch-chain charm (a seal), to grandson John Pierpont Morgan...
...physiologist, Dr. Gustav Eckstein, has visited Japan often. He has been more interested in Japan than in any other country except his own. Since Pearl Harbor, Dr. Eckstein has been busy thinking about the Japanese, and writing about them. He has written a rambling yet limpid book, of uncommon charm in style, in insight as rich as it is unpretentious. If every U.S. citizen read this book, and digested it, the chances of a durable Pacific peace might be greatly improved...
...guard, colored waiters came & went, a homely beer barrel was cunningly concealed in a feathery bank of fern. (Cheese & crackers went with the beer.) At the room's south entrance the President sat in a big red leather chair, the famed ivory cigaret holder tilted audaciously, the famed charm sparkling and bubbling like champagne. So seductively supercharged was the Roosevelt manner that it shocked one of his guests to a state of real alarm. Said Nebraska's dapper freshman Senator Kenneth S. Wherry, come to take the place of good George Norris: "No man who has that persuasive...
...many were so chary of his charm. Scores of the oats-feeling young Congressmen went away impressed almost to the point of real fondness for the President. Two days later the normal reaction came. The House, 268-to-129, figuratively aimed a swift kick at the President by adopting the Disney bill (see p. 12), in angry and direct repudiation of Government by directive...
...bawdy, abundant newspaperman. Such talk is dull in spots, complacently boorish in others, childish in some of its conclusions (Westbrook Pegler, though mentally "the human saddle sore" is as a prose stylist "one of the great writers of our day"). At its worst the book has at least the charm of its dialect: the dialect of the vigorous, honest, somewhat cornfed gentlemen of the press. At its best it is" thick with good eccentrics, good phrases, good stories...