Word: charming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...potency of the charm and mind of the Madame had already made her mission a tremendous personal success. If her slight, hard-driven body could keep up with her iron will, the tour might become as dramatic a personal triumph as Hero Lindbergh's 1927 tour, Candidate Wendell Willkie's 1940 train ride...
...Manhattan. He showed sailing boats in a topsy-turvy port, ornate buildings with leaning façades, a bus looking like an enlarged caterpillar, a self-portrait revealing a jaundiced gentleman with jet hair. Critics were enchanted. They could not fail to make comparisons with the pigmental innocence and charm of France's late, great "primitive" Henri "Douanier" Rousseau...
...soldier of fortune, has acquired a social consciousness under his callous shell which, we are told, caused him to do his usual tommy-gunning with the Loyalists in Spain and which finally causes him to become the martyred lover. Miss Bergman, possessor of the kind of sensitive, intelligent charm that makes most of Hollywood's leading ladies look like female cigar store Indians in contrast, contributes a refreshingly different crotic appeal and some acting, to boot. Paul Henreid is a very credible Czech patriot, with just the right amount of anti-fascist fervor...
Upton Sinclair has written still another novel about Lanny Budd, with his neat tan mustache, his Franco-American charm, and the art dealer's trade which takes him anywhere (TIME...
Today, as both Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House, Eden uses tact and charm in keeping debates within reason, chats earnestly with opposition leaders in the midst of the most heated discussions. He has the trick of lightly fingering the arm of a backbencher in a gesture of intimacy that avoids the bad taste of the backslapper. During the week he lives in the Foreign Office. Weekends he spends in a comfortable 18th-Century house near London, with handy direct telephones to the Prime Minister and to the Foreign Office. Last week he spent an evening...