Word: charmings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Realizing that incidents so authentic are not numerously remembered, Mrs. Lowrie does not try to stretch the charm of her simple record beyond 164 small pages...
...charm the Dakotas, Governor William J. Bulow of South Dakota would be the man. It was not solely to see the Atlantic Ocean for the first time that Governor Bulow went to New York last winter (TIME, Jan. 30). The Dakotas, however, have but five electoral votes apiece. As vice-presidential material, Governor Bulow seemed just about half as likely as Cordell Hull...
Since the stirring days when Pilsudski was engaged in clandestine Socialist activities, he has been assisted by the present Madame Pilsudska, a woman of culture, charm and quickening ideas. Gifted with a pliant temperament, she got on excellently well with the Marshal's first wife, the late Maria Litinska Pilsudska, who was her husband's first collaborator in the secret and dangerous work of putting forth a Socialist newspaper Robotnik (The Workman) under the pre-War Tsarist régime in Poland...
Even a savage knows that the world is a place of magic; he wonders what huge invisible hand draws the sun down into darkness, with what inaudible, dark charm a man is taken, suddenly and forever, out of the world, into an unreal place. This last trick puzzles even people who know just how all the others are accomplished. When someone dies whom they have known, they may go to witch-doctors called mediums who pretend that by saying hocus-pocus or by going into a trance, they can make dead people say things to people who are living. This...
Fortunately, Lieut.-Commander P. V. H. Weems, U. S. N., is a good-humored fellow of wit, charm and a grin. Fortunately, because he has been chosen to teach the difficult science of navigation to the one man who by reputation and instinct apparently knows plenty about it: Charles Augustus Lindbergh...