Word: charms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shillings to send him to London's Central Labor College. For the first time, Bevan saw the world beyond the Welsh hills. He loved it. He plunged into a crowd of young people who had read, who could talk. They were fascinated by his exuberance, his brash charm, his wit. Bloomsbury apartments, Chelsea studios and Mayfair drawing rooms reverberated with the laughter which came from him in torrents as he threw back his massive head. But he remained true to Tredegar; he nourished his hatreds...
There is a certain quixotic charm about that mystery of the misplaced votes at Radcliffe. What happened on the female side of the Square last week bodes well for the supply of Hokinsonian matrons in the suburbia of the future, but the people actually involved in the incident might feel that they have a right to expect more responsible behavior from a duly constituted Student Government...
...Cribbage Board. A hearty, goodfellow type of woman, Perle Mesta is an Oklahoma widow, whose wealth came from a marriage of Oklahoma oil and Pittsburgh machine tools. Not even her warmest admirers, who liked her liveliness, would credit her with overwhelming charm or notable wit. But ambassadors, Senators and Cabinet officers come at her beck. In a city where a hostess' success can be scored like points in a cribbage game by counting up the rank of her guests, Perle Mesta outscores them all. Unlike her predecessors, Perle Mesta won her position not by prestige and not alone...
...also a man who is easily the most interesting ruler the country has known since mad King Ludwig II. He is Murray D. van Wagoner, onetime Michigan state commissioner of roads, onetime governor of Michigan, today governor of Bavaria. A portly, ruddy-faced man with a kind of gruff charm, Van Wagoner engages in no such lunacies as Ludwig, who built bizarre stone castles all over Bavaria, and ended his life by jumping into a lake. Van Wagoner's castles are all built...
...Garrick could offend, he could also charm. In 1773, Johnson admitted him to the circle, and when he retired from the stage in 1776, the citizens of London gave him tremendous applause at his last performances. To a good many Londoners it was a far more important event than the rebellion then going on in those troublesome American colonies...