Word: charms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stolid virtues of his people. At 60 he plays tennis, as does his father, King Gustaf V, who is nearly 85 years old. He is better at golf, which his father disdains as an old man's game. Last week, speaking English with an Oxford accent, he oozed charm and cordiality to the visiting American journalists. His people like him personally better than they like the King...
...live to see the defeat of the Nazis. She is credited by diplomats with being one of the most brilliant practitioners of her craft of her age. Though never publicized, Kollontay had much to do with the Finnish-Russian peace of 1940. With her superb intelligence and with her charm, she helps the Scandinavian countries to deal with the Kremlin enigma...
Sentiment for Americans. A German broadcaster last week turned French spirit to the uses of Axis propaganda. In an English-language broadcast beamed to the U.S., he burbled about "the charm and chic of the Parisienne compared to the women of other cities that you may know of." He enlarged upon the sidewalk cafes ("almost everyone knows a dozen . . . where one can eat well, often at surprisingly reasonable prices") and the Ritz and Claridge's ("favorite places just now . . . for the fashionable world"). And the races at Auteuil-75,000 people were there for "the 'Grand Steeple-Chase...
...Turn the high schools into charm schools. Teach courtesy and grace, the art of dress, dancing, the development of personality and talents, choral singing and personal relationships. There would be no resistance to this kind of curriculum. And after this, two or three years of concentrated history, English, mathematics and languages for those who want these things. And for the others- well, they would at least be as well educated as they are now, and for all of us life would be far more beautiful...
...first show, in Buenos Aires. During the following nine years he held 19 exhibitions in South America, Paris, Brussels, and London. Today his work hangs in the Luxembourg. Wrote French Critic Georges Pillement: "The charm of Figari is extraordinary. [He] will certainly remain one of the most marvelous colorists who has ever lived...