Word: charmings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There a group of youthful artists learns to applaud her studied phrases, but they lose their charm "all kneeling," and her "yen" for adulation turns to other fields. She prefers "a pink-and-yellow apple" to "all the jewels in the Rue de la Paix," but marries a rich man and surrounds herself with the luxuries she pretends to despise. Too soon, she learns that her husband thinks more of his golf and his naps than of the blue, blue sky. "What peace it would be," she writes in her journal, "to let my body enter the sea, and sink...
...been suggested, the charm of the book lies largely in author's pleasant narrative style, his genial humor, and the thin veil of sentiment in evidence. His descriptions of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians are features of the work which is probably a great deal more profitable reading than most contemporaneous novels...
That a bastard could keep a bitter bargain when an emperor of the blood could not, is the thrilling tale which Author Preedy tells in all the sharp contrast of two disparate natures. With ingenious charm he answers an enigma of European history, enriching it with intriguing rogues, loyal soldiers, a soothsayer, an acrid duchess, and a golden-haired damsel who sets a light at her bedroom window...
...title Author Wescott implies that he is finished with his native haunts as literary copy it is just as well, since Wisconsin appears to him in unrelieved grey?a monotone of ugliness. And so do the people. Not a one of them has charm or gentleness or pleasant impulses; and the thoughts of each, tortuously analyzed, hark back to a frustration or forward with resignation and despair. Typical in the collection of stories are the drab blunderings of Amelia and her loutish husband ("The Runaways") who weary of their sterile farm, and burn the house for the insurance. Too scatter...
...butcher's boy, creeping to a kitchen rendezvous. Soon the balmy girl became a mother. Her uncle dragged the lieutenant toward her, stressing the necessity for nuptials. Unable to agree, the lieutenant began by protesting his innocence of even the preliminaries of fatherhood; but eventually, finding some obscure charm in the lady's dementia, he claimed the bastard as his own, embraced the mad mademoiselle and then, kicking an epigram across the stage, killed the butcher's boy with his sword. The butcher's boy was played with mischievous skill by Romney Brent...