Word: charmings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Discrimination in occupational advertisements is sharpest against Jewish salesmen, white-collar workers, women stenographers. To combat it, many Jewish girls have taken to wearing crosses "as a protective charm...
...sometimes suggested naively, and not always by women, that the explanation of Hitler's harsh personality and policies is his bachelorhood-his indifference to the charm of women and the lack of children of his own. How much this theory smacks of the coo-and-goo philosophy which Hollywood gravely asks us to accept daily on our screens is apparent when we look for example at the private lives of Hitler's two "also-ran" fellow dictators. Mussolini is very much the family man, but there is no evidence that Signora Mussolini or the several little Mussolinis have...
...families, romance between the great-grandson (Richard Greene) of one and the great-granddaughter (Loretta Young) of the other, and the question of whether Postman or Blue Grass will win the Kentucky Derby. It treats these matters with such profound faith in their importance that it is likely to charm even critics who feel that the cinema industry should be more than a museum...
...cleverly turned out a George Jean Nathan, an Alexander Woolcott, and an Orson Welles, these gentlemen's attempts at acting are deplorable, even when allowances are made for first-night stage-fright. Only the skill of John W. Sever '40, as Maxwell Anderson alias Mr. Puff, and the charm of Dorothe Larson of the Bishop Lec Dramatic School induce the audience to return to their seats after the intermission...
...most moving of Coffin's verses deals with an old rural custom of marking children's heights upon the wall, a custom which he fashions into an appealing metaphor called "The Family Stairs." He draws heavily upon the emotion conveyed by understatement for an effect of quiet charm. Again in "The Race" and "When Worthen Plays," there is the same moving simplicity and clarity in catching a parallel of life in a human custom or act. As Percy Hutchison phrased it, although he deals with beauty and delicacy of subject, Coffin "never forgets that his is the oaten flute...