Word: charmings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spanish southland has long since passes the sceptre of popular favor to that delicate product of modern novelists: the hero who analyzes and records his "complexes." Yet when this newer type becomes a trifle boring the exaggerated romances of Davis still retain some of their old charm; and when one of his adventurers actually appears on the crowded walls of lower Manhattan the mostest jaded Broadwayite is tempted to look. So with "Tex" O'Reilly...
After all, its good to be back. There is a charm about the old place not to be denied. But those bothersome examinations! They cloud every happy thought. Then the student's real self, that fearless part of him which rises superior to the requirements for a degree, urges. "Courage! If you persevere, you'll get an education yet in spite of the petty demands of courses and the exigencies of examinations...
Rear Admiral Wilson, the retiring commandant, is a man of unusual charm. Under his superintendence the midshipmen at the academy have been allowed considerable more liberty than during previous regimes. Under previous Superintendents, midshipmen, except first class men, were not allowed to go into "town" or to smoke. Admiral Wilson has also allowed more holiday recesses. One of his contributions as Superin- tendent has been a great improvement in the grounds of the Academy...
...Daughter, The Home, The Neighbors, Nina,-were never trim enough to make the passage between Today and Yesterday; lugubrious galleons, in that gulf they foundered. But time has preserved her letters in their own sharp salt; and the lapse of this half-century has bred in them a charm, a pathos they could never have had in the beginning-the charm of the ingenuous, the pathos of the unaware. Here was a little lady looking at a country sick with dysentery, fever in its veins and the drums of war tapping. She ob- served with the keenness of a cocotte...
...Both men protest too much. . . . But both statements have a basic foundation of truth. We must admit that a large part of American college life consists of charm collecting...