Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town to introduce Danny Kaye and other stars of Me and the Colonel at a benefit opening, Frankie took her to three parties on three successive evenings, particularly wowed Lady Northampton's guests. "Perfectly adorable," said Lady Lewisham, and Lady Dalrymple-Champneys was so stricken with the Sinatra charm that she gasped: "I'd like him to meet the Duchess of Gloucester...
...welcome an educated man; the fact that he flunked his exams is a technicality they fail to grasp. He soon finds himself writing letters for the adults and giving lessons to the children. Everyone takes for granted that his city ways of love-making must be the epitome of charm. As Jean-Marie is actually a virgin, much of Author Beti's humor is spent on his hero's efforts to keep out of one bed by falling between two. In the end it is the jungle that educates Jean-Marie and sends him back, a more sophisticated...
...musicians' fiddles and his trustees' feelings, can hardly find an orchestra to conduct. On one side he is Blanked by a shameless manager who ten times a day tries to save the day with desperate lies, on the other by a wife who once saved it through charm. Now separated from the maestro, she wants a divorce so she can marry someone else; the litch is that she was not married the first time...
...charm of this book lies in Author Marceau's devotion to his extraordinary characters-a devotion that enables him to make them not merely funny but amazingly human as well. Haughty aristocrat, aping student, money-loving businessman, dim-witted girl-by the time Marceau has done with them, all have shed their comical trappings, and walk the world in the shape of broken hearts...
...music still has a lilting, lace-curtain charm, but it is well for Statesman Dawes that he never lived to see himself become a jukebox hit. The man who helped negotiate the Kellogg Pact might have trouble digging Crooner Tommy Edwards' adenoidal message...