Word: charms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chang's Szechwan thrives the gravely gamboling panda. When they began to charm children and zoo addicts in general, Chang arranged to ship out two of the rare creatures a year-in exchange for forign scholarships for Szechwan youths.* Recently he admitted his love for American-style ice cream (made on his home freezer). Chang's attractive wife talked of rationing his helpings...
Calles right out of the country. Serrano yearned to be a kingmaker. He saw a good prospect in the bright intelligence, personal charm and gleaming smile of Miguel Aléman. He got to work, and in two years Aléman zoomed from private citizen to Justice of the Superior Court of the Federal District to Senator from Vera Cruz to Governor of the state. (His predecessor had been killed in a cafe murder...
Betty Crump, granddaughter of Tennessee's Boss Ed Crump, was named Queen of the Memphis Cotton Carnival. The Memphis Commercial Appeal was ecstatic for two columns. Sample: "Her beauty is reflective of the Deep South . . . freshness and spontaneity, naturalness and lingering charm...
...Stanwyck), a great pianist exhausted by her trade, comes to a Swiss sanitarium for a rest. Her doctor (David Niven) decides not to tell her that she is far gone in tuberculosis. Slowly, she realizes that he is lying to her. Then she begins to doubt that his lavish charm and his protestations of love are better than so much calculated therapeutic blarney...
...search of "what has never been seen," he hopes to come upon something pleasant. "The German Occupation," Magritte explains, "marked a turning point in my art. Before the war, my paintings expressed anxiety, but the experiences of war have taught me that what matters in art is to express charm. It I is much easier to terrorize than to charm. ... I live in a very disagreeable world, and my work is meant as a counter-offensive...