Word: charms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been the sole concern of George Drew and his backers. Drew's first and most potent backers were the big businessmen: Toronto's "Bay Street Boys" and their allies from Montreal's St. James Street. But Candidate Drew had not depended wholly on them. With smiling charm and political skill he had lined up the leaders from eight provinces before the convention opened. The one exception: Saskatchewan, pledged to Favorite Son John Diefenbaker, champion of a Bill of Rights for Canada...
...foreign policy. He pointed out that the 80th Congress had appropriated more money for reclamation than the preceding Democratic Congress, adding invariably: "Sometimes we don't talk so good but we perform." At the end he always introduced Mrs. Dewey, who said not a word but whose modest charm was cordially approved...
...Phil Spitalny and his all-girl Hour of Charm orchestra will be replaced by a half-hour dramatic show, featuring Helen Hayes...
...from a lip infection, drowsed off in a fever on shipboard and was buried on the Aegean island of Skyros. He was 27. His generation, bred in formal beauty and ancient peace, numbered many gallant young men; but by all accounts Brooke had the best looks and the greatest charm. Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, wrote at his death: "Joyous, fearless, versatile, deeply instructed, with classic symmetry of mind and body, he was all one could wish England's noblest sons...
Isabel and the Sea will make even a coal miner imagine himself "running free under number-two jib, staysail, mainsail, and mizzen . . . setting course for the volcanic island of Stromboli." In addition to nautical charm, it is loaded to the gunwales with deft and lively pictures of European life and manners-pictures which unroll as on sensitive film as Truant weaves her way across a continent...