Word: charms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ensuing popularity the routine duties of Polish ambassador. Rarely did his name appear in print; and then usually at official receptions. He lived the life of an ambassador in the spirit of the sportsman. His days belonged to the hounds, to tennis, to dancing. Wherever he mixed, his charm prepared the way for closer American friendship with Poland...
...Crosby, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Charlie McCarthy. The Philharmonic had arranged to broadcast on tour; a hallowed hush awaited Arturo Toscanini next week in NBC's starchy Studio 8H. Rudy Vallée, Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson were major absentees. There was no newcomer with the mature charm of 1938's prize find, Information Please, but radio 1939 turned up an idea that threatens to sweep the nation like Bingo if the antigambling goblins don't get it first...
...Father No.1, long since weaned from the bottle by David's influence and now a city editor. But to protect Father No. 2's in with his biggest client, Mother has already got to Father No. 1, who runs out on David. Disillusioned, with much boyish charm David tells Mother she has made a nice mess of both their lives. She packs him off "where he belongs," to Father No. 1, who never did run out anyway, is still a city editor. Good shot: the Professor's harum-scarum daughter (Brenda Joyce), who calls all her father...
Proverbially, every humorist is at heart a melancholy satirist. Not so Alan Alexander Milne. "It is assumed too readily," he protests, "that a writer who makes his readers laugh would really prefer to make them cry. . . ." Much of the charm of Milne's Autobiography comes from his honest admission that entertainment...
...Issue. Other Senators believe Jimmy Byrnes could charm snakes without a flute and with his eyes closed. That talent he needed now. For no man on the other side can orate with the power and clarity and command of Borah; no one on the other side is as agile and knowing a parliamentarian as Bennett Clark...