Word: charmings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...headway to establish either an Eliot Museum or to dedicate some spot or structure to the great President's memory. The house in which he lived for so many years in Cambridge is not, like the Longfellow house, one of the architectural landmarks of the city. It lacks the charm of setting of the pre-Revolutionary houses along Brattle Street...
...matter very much who a prince marries as long as she is amiable and takes a good picture. Perhaps the Archduke realizes all this but finds it difficult to break a century old habit. He really deserves a lot of sympathy. Not that the Italian Indy hasn't every charm in the world, but any man to be pitied who blunders into a family where Mussolini is the political mother...
...temper and resourcefulness in quarrel were speedily renowned. Yet it was never Bonfils, except as an exotic danger, who utterly captured the imagination of lonely sheep herders, grim miners, lusty ranchers and eager townsmen. It was Tammen. Bonfils had brains and intensity. H. H. Tammen had brains and charm. It was his creed that, if a man was going to be a faker, he must be a magnificent one. He kept his desk drawer full of paper money in small denominations. Any panhandler, honest "broke" or sleasy rumdum who got in? to see him?and any- one could?was sure...
...ever-present charm and vigor and enthusiasm endeared...
...perhaps in a meadow like the dewy one in their book Knee-High to aGrasshopper - and been consumed by that uncomfortable emotion which is a mixture of furious exasperation and profound pity. They must have compacted to make a united effort some day to sting, poke, wheedle, pat and charm all such people out of their bungalow souls into the big bright mansions of life and the world...