Word: charms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money, a name and a flair for publicity; he had Lord Randolph Churchill's "force, caprice and charm"; and he had an incomparable gift for words. During his years of eclipse between the two World Wars he was an articulate and consistent critic of British Empire policy, the most feared politician in Britain by the narrow-minded men who made that policy. He was the one man in the British Empire most obviously equipped to lead the Empire in war, and it was small credit to Britain that he was not chosen to lead it until the Empire rocked...
...keeps him until she is tired of him, then gets the heel out of there. Meanwhile he has lost the affections of a nice young ingenue. Somehow the show performs the feat of making Joey an almost sympathetic character. As Joey, lean, dark Gene Kelly has a treacherous Irish charm, a sweet Irish tenor, a catlike dancing grace that makes vice almost as appealing as virtue. This impression is confirmed by Vivienne Segal as the loose Chicagoenne. More opulent than she used to be in the Ziegfeld Follies, in Helene Pons's svelte costumes she is a luscious miracle...
Best Seller. But Manager Johnson's best-selling good-looker dates from the regime of his predecessor, Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Lily Pons has exuded practiced charm, emitted light but flawless high notes at the Met for just ten years...
...real significance of Queen Ann's visit to Harvard, though, lies deep in the hearts of the boys at the studio who think her charm, ready wit, and unassuming manner maker her Harvard's sweetheart. And she loves Harvard "gentlemen...
...says Bowdoin Professor Herbert Ross Brown, "deserve to appear on any list of the world's worst fiction." Yet he feels that these novels of "handkerchiefly" feeling deserve his 400-page study as clues to the early literary aspirations of the U. S., which have something of the charm of Currier & Ives prints...