Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...troops of friends of Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen admire her for her delightful charm, her tolerance of frailty, her laughing understanding of worldliness. She lives heartily, enjoys the world's feasts...
...scale as well as of style. However, so far, there is nothing royalty goal at to end of the Yard except the new President's house, built by Mr. Lowell. This house is well matched in its manner with the oldest buildings and yet has plenty of charm and a character...
...whole affair or both affairs resolve themselves into expressions of that youthful indiscretion which can be so charming and can be so damnable. College is supposed to keep the charm and erase the damnation. So the fact that Yale offers in true sportsmanship to place another crew on the river or let the Harvard freshmen race in the Junior varsity event, is not without significance. It shows even more clearly to the public than such moves usually do the fact that the college is trying to maintain standards of sportsmanship and honor and that this indiscretion of certain individuals...
Roused by these wrathy words, the Japanese learned with satisfaction last week that Masanao Hanihara is likely soon to succeed Kentaro Ochiai as Japanese Ambassador to Italy. There his smile, his wit, his vigor may perhaps charm Il Duce. Concurrently Premier Wakatsuki reshuffled his Cabinet, appointed the following politicians to the offices named: Viscount K. Inouye, Railroads; C. Machida, Agriculture; M. Hamaguchi, Home Affairs...
...party. Whether or not the reader agrees with the author, he can hardly fail to find the body of the book interesting and stimulating. Mr. Dickinson does himself an injustice when he says that the book will be unappreciated by any but trained minds. Rarely are history and literary charm so well united