Word: charming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris he encounters Napoleon III, moves through a lot of heavy research on Second Empire high life, impresses Eugénie and many of the court ladies with his masculine charm, meets the heroine again, and in three years' seclusion becomes a fine sculptor...
...restaurants make no profit at all, the Stouffer chain (in Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia) netted $83,000 on yearly sales of $2,037,000. By end of 1936 Father Stouffer was dead, the boys were running the show. They invaded Manhattan; their technique worked like a charm. Last week Vernon, president & treasurer, 37, and Gordon, personnel head, 34, rolled out an income statement to turn the average restaurateur green. For fiscal 1940 (July 31) their twelve restaurants yielded $418,000 profits on $5,012,000 gross...
Though he is tall for a Japanese (5 ft. 11 in.), he could never be a soldier. He was given a D in his conscript physical examination. Charm is not necessarily a prerequisite for dictatorship, but he is singularly unprepossessing: shy, chinless, unaggressive-"noble," as the Japanese say. He has neither ambition nor self-assurance. "I have," he says, "no confidence in myself to solve the political and economic problems of the nation...
...named Alvar Aalto and his architect wife, Aino, really got somewhere with modern furniture. Influenced by the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier (real name: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), but experimenting in plywood instead of steel, they smoothed out geometric kinks, turned out chairs which combined the functional with good sense and charm. The Aaltos were the first to make chairs with pliant one-piece backs and resilient seats. They pioneered also in welding together layers of plywood with synthetic cement, cold-pressing them for six weeks into posture-pleasing shapes...
...unhappy life. As pieced together by Biographer Ross from the Lamb literary remains, from scraps of correspondence, there is little ordeal in the day-to-day doings of Bridget Elia (Lamb's literary name for his sister). What emerges is a singularly tender brother-&-sister relationship, of much charm, grace, fortitude, patience. In her long lucid intervals, Mary Lamb led a lively life: The Ordeal of Bridget Elia is a lively record...