Word: charms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Mary Anderson (Madame Antonio de Navarro), 80, legendary golden-haired U. S. and English stage favorite of the '705 and '80s; at Court Farm, Broadway, Worcestershire, England. Her persuasive charm, plus her talent, enchanted audiences. When she made her debut at 16 (as Juliet, at Macauley's Theatre, Louisville, Ky.), critics described her as "a wonder of awkwardness" with "a glimmer of promise." She retired when she was 30, at the height of her career...
...tour for the Our Gang kids. In & out of the U. S. frequently, Delaney, always reticent about his personal life, was something of a mystery man even to his close friends. In 1934 he published his first book, The Lady By Degrees, followed it next year with The Charm Girl, advertised as the "scream-line correspondence of a radio charmer and her girl friend." Typical sentence: "Remember darling, you can't always judge a man by how he looks as by where he glances, which sometimes makes me long for the good old days when Fanny was a girl...
...exert our utmost charm to all guests at a party...
...World War I. In the past eight years his course in "American Thought and Civilization" has significantly outstripped in popularity elegant Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker's "Age of Johnson" and now, with 350 students, has the largest crowd in the university. Textbookish in getup and without resort to charm, his book is strictly and impressively U. S. stuff, the richest work of its kind since Parrington's Main Currents of American Thought...
...election this year, it is by no means certain that he will win again. Young, liberal Republicans approve his record. He wrote an act to settle labor trouble by requiring a cooling-off period before a strike could be called or a lockout declared. The act worked like a charm: under his administration there has been not one serious industrial strike in Minnesota. Stassen's claims are that he has reduced State expenses, invested Minnesota's government with a new sense of integrity. But old-line politicians grumb that he has not taken care of the faithful...