Word: charmings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the free & easy friendliness that is political good manners. His wife, who will have nothing to do with politics, is not popular with politicians and lives apart from it all in their chaste colonial house in Topeka, quietly collecting American antiques. For all his animal energy and physical charm, his nerves at times go haywire and he is not infrequently guilty of the gross political sin of tactlessness. To those who do not like him he is an egotist, unable to play second fiddle to anyone else, tied to Governor Landon only by their mutual self-interest...
...overmuch dramatic significances. At the other end of the line we find the Park Theatre, fromerly of Mineky's chain, presenting the much whispered about Czechoslovakian film "Ecstasy." The Park bills it for Adults Only, but it is nowhere near that exciting. Except for moments of genuine scenic charm it is an exceedingly pedestrian study of why girls get restless at times and will please all those who find this study sufficiently interesting to overcome the noxious results of a censor's unseeing...
...Orleans of Texas. Though surrounding oil & gas have turned it into a bustling busi ness city, its large and picturesque Mexican quarter, its lovely old Catholic missions, the remains of the ancient Spanish Governor's Palace still give it a hot Latin charm. Through its streets crowd soldiers from Fort Sam Houston, cadets and officers from the Army's nearby aviation fields - Brooks, Kelly and Randolph ("West Point...
Punch's droll Herbert could not leave off without proposing that "upon the Hot Seat or Vibrating Chair which jiggles" in the gymnasium, the Cunard White Star line should screw another commemorative plate: "HERE SAT, WITH HIS ACCUSTOMED DIGNITY AND CHARM, SIR HORACE DAWKINS, THE REVERED CLERK AT THE TABLE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, AND WAS VIBRATED AFTER A GOOD LUNCH, MAY 16TH...
With his sound musical background and his ready Irish charm Herbert was bound to make himself known. Little time passed before Conductor Anton Seidl made him his assistant for the Brighton Beach concerts. For four years thereafter Herbert led the famed Pat Gilmore band, for six the Pittsburgh Symphony. On Broadway he became a legendary figure. His capacity for work was equaled by his Gargantuan appetite for food and drink...