Word: charmings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taken away, destroys the greatness of the play. For instance. 'Romeo and Juliet' requires the romance-breathing Italian atmosphere, while the more blatant, boisterous plays would not be out of place in any country but England. This we found to be the case with 'Hamlet'. Ophelia would lose her charm in modern dress. And then, a change of costume is not needed to make Shakespeare modern. His thought and his humility will always be ultra-modern...
...Breeze as a past master at the art of settling a dispute without an open quarrel. In that capacity he has been of inestimable service to successive Administrations. For he has what William Allen White calls "a blessed gift as a hand-shaker" and "the indefinable thing called charm which binds men to one another forever." "Add to that," writes White, "a gentle, ingratiating voice, and an easy flow of innocuous conversation unimpeded by pestiferous ideas, and you have a creature God-sent into politics...
During March Harvard begins to grow somewhat restless. No longer do the section meetings hold their charm for the student who has to attend them. Sometimes he even wishes he had not enjoyed himself quite so much during the winter. The cold that he had to guard against then can only be found now where the sun never penetrates--and he shivers in his seat in the halls of Sever. He is impatient of the slow-melting ice on the Charles. It is time the grass began to grow green, be thinks--and lapses into the traditional dreams...
...rouse the nation from its apathy. America still is far from being musically cultivated, but it is no longer an ignoramus among nations in this art, and whatever distance it has come on the road toward understanding the significance and beauty of symphony or opera, and the finer charm of chamber music. It owes to such men as Major Higginson and Mr. Whiting. Harvard is showing its gratitude to the latter in the way that pleases him most, by the large and appreciative audiences that greet his appearance here...
...titles of European nobility and then noisily misconducting themselves, seem less to deserve their elaborate and acquired nomenclature than the simple label slut. To this honking propaganda, a modern audience dares say "Boo!" The play is a rapidly ironic comedy of bad manners. Ina Claire lends it the exciting charm of her acting and her tireless beauty...