Word: charms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted sensitive Britons to overhear: visiting British economists could expect "friendliness and helpfulness from the U.S." Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, onetime commander of the Legion, presented Mr. Truman with the Legion's Distinguished Service Medal, its highest award. Said Secretary Johnson: "In his simplicity, his humility, his charm, his humor, his devotion to his friends . . . our friend and fellow veteran Harry Truman never seems to change...
Figures (TIME, Jan. 17), the sly charm of Saracen's Head will come as no surprise. Lancaster's own illustrations, in color and black & white, are so pointed that those too lazy to read can join him in his laugh at the age of chivalry by merely turning the pages...
...real McCoy, Roseanna is a moderately entertaining movie. It successfully avoids the bearded cliches of most hillbilly fiction and sticks to a safe middle road between authenticated history and conservative Hollywood tradition. Highlight of the picture is Miss Evans, Sam Goldwyn's latest personal find, whose natural, unadorned charm gives an appealing homespun finish to the slick production. To back her up, Goldwyn also contributed the talents of some distinguished veterans, notably Raymond Massey and Aline MacMahon as the elder McCoys, and Charles Bickford and Hope Emerson as Anse and Levisa Hatfield. Their performances, together with that of Miss...
...such a lyric manner, did Fabre, one of the world's great entomologists, record the daily lives of insects: fired by devotion to his "dear friends," he could describe the horrid or the humdrum in paragraphs almost like fairy tales in their mystery and charm...
...watches, absorbed, the mating dance of the scorpions: "These hideous devotees of gaiety provide a dance that is not wholly devoid of charm . . . They seek one another and fly precipitately the moment they touch, as though they had mutually burnt their fingers ... At times there is a violent tumult; a confused mass of swarming legs, snapping claws, tails curving and clashing, threatening or fondling, it is hard to say which. All, large and small alike, take part in the brawl; it might be a battle to the death, a general massacre; and it is just a wanton frolic...