Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have all of us at one time or another of our lives been struck by the charm of textiles and pottery made either before the development of the factory system, with its, standardized mechanical processes, or, recently, in more or less remote country districts by people working by hand with simple tools in natural materials in a traditional manner. We know that this charm is due in part to traditional form, for no form or pattern can become traditional unless it is pleasing and well adapted for use: yet another and no less significant reason why these objects are beautiful...
...whose working days are spent at the Harvard University Press. Incidentally, the carols were selected by the wife of a University official, and also both members of the firm that publishes it are connected with Harvard. The importance of this book lies in the fact that its easily recognized charm is due to the combination of what was best in the practice of book-making before printing was invented, with the utilization of the most modern machine methods...
...herself as the Merry Monarch Charles II honoring his Secretary of the Admiralty with a visit. Müncheners greatly liked this synthetic Pepys given them in the translation of Max Meyerfeld. They waxed enthusiastic over the simple, deftly turned music of Composer Coates, likened its gaiety, its crinkling charm to Mozart...