Word: charmings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guidance, each year the Downs's seating capacity has been added to and its comfort and its beauty increased. This year, with an expenditure of over $200,000 the entire Churchill Downs plant has been transformed until it sets a high mark in race course architecture for spaciousness, charm and luxury. The new clubhouse itself has no equal even among the great New York hotels in point of originality, furnishings and decorations. Col. Winn himself outlined and designed the lounge room. Modernistic to the last touch, it is a triumph of the decorator...
...unthinkable without the aggressive and autocratic figure of the great Shakespeare scholar as it would be without Harvard Hall, in which for so many years he has lectured. The university has known more palatable teachers. Bliss Perry won the hearts of generations of students of literature by the charm and urbanity of his readings. But Professor Kittredge has been at once a good, a scourge and an inspriation. For nearly a half century he has prodded good students into better work and opened their minds. He has blistered the incompetent with his scorn and brought shame to the cheeks...
...messy job as professional writing, but even in working dress Edith Wharton is patently grande-dame. To the eyes of the younger generation, her polite and cultivated formality might well seem quaintly behind the times, but for survivors of the pre-War garden age she still has a nostalgic charm. If the stories in her latest book are not quite so cosmopolitan as the title suggests, nor her characters' quite so lifelike as they proclaim themselves, they show that Author Wharton's eye for formal effect has lost none of its cultivated keenness...
...life and works. Author Williams devotes particular attention to George Eliot's life with Lewes, explaining much of her writing in terms of that relationship which so shocked the Victorian world. Although some of the detail is dull, the book as a whole is written with charm and perception, should be the last word on George Eliot for some time to come...
...novel of ideas but a simpleminded, affectionate tale of nonage in Nebraska. Though critics might well say the narrative creaked and that it was peopled by wooden marionettes out of Horatio Alger, they also found that its mixture of old-fashioned naivete and shrewdness had genuine charm...