Word: charmings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Murray briefly summed up her career. "I have danced, danced, danced .... in the street to the music of hurdygurdles, before an old convent I attended, in the glamorous spotlight of the "Follies" under the instruction of Ziegfield, on expensive sets in lavish movies. The cinema has its charm, but after two more pictures I am hidding it adieu. My husband and I are going to Tunis to live, close to the romantic Sahara...
Gorgeous, golden, exotic Mae Murray is the cynosure of all eyes at the Metropolitan this week. It would be otiose not to sing her praises, because some of her charm and personality manages to transcend the tawdry banality of the Revue in which she appears, the ornate ensembles in which she is dressed, and the characterless puppets who support her. On the screen she had as distinct an individuality as Theda Bara ever had, but on the Metropolitan stage she was unable to glitter as in "Fascination" or "Peacock Alley". The romance of the Merry Widow waltz left the "Publix...
...cutting the mystically hazy aura which has enshrouded the charm of Oxford's weathered stones and deeply rooted ivy, we are grateful. There has been too much affected anglomania in our seats of learning. Discontent with our mongrel methods has painted the British pastures a brighter hue of emerald green...
...left-handed little man who gets $1,700 for a magazine cover. Quietly he replied that among his luggage was a portrait for which Il Duce had posed three times. . . . Mrs. Christy, vivacious, cut in. Cried she: "Mussolini is the most marvelous man I ever knew. He has charm, personality, strength, a sense of humor. He is a genius! He is so wonderful that every other man you meet after you have seen him seems flat and dull!" Artist Christy, fired by his wife to enthusiasm, cried: "Mussolini is perfect. ... He let us do anything we wanted-anything. ... I could...
...possessor of a piece of liversausage will turn to page 244 and may produce Swedish smorgasbord (which, after all, is only a piece of bread with a bit of meat, fish or cheese laid on it and served with butter). While some of the recipes thus draw their charm almost entirely from an exotic name, most teem with lucious promise. Even the grossest of non-gourmets might read on after encountering the book's first sentence: "In America the name of garlic is in bad odor." To which the author adds: "This conception is a libel upon garlic and upon...