Word: charms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elwood Dowd (Actor Oscar Karlweis), are constantly thrusting gift packages at him. Most of them contain cabbage and carrots for the kindly rabbit who nightly helps his friend to find good in his fellow man. Even the Polish Minister seemed to have fallen sway to the rabbit's charm. At a dinner at the legation recently, he called Karlweis aside for a vodka. He poured out two glasses. "One for you," he told Vienna's Elwood, "and one for Charrryey...
...pulps, but not for the comics. Some other comic-book publishers were thriving, and total sales were still 60 million copies a month. The fact was that Street & Smith had ridden off in another direction-into the women's field. There Street & Smith's Mademoiselle, Charm and Mademoiselle's Living were selling 1,272,000 an issue among them...
...annual Easter sunrise passion play put on as an Oklahoma hillside Oberammergau by citizens of Lawton, Okla. Babb & Jossey trimmed the film and added some homey fictional sequences fore & aft, starring a six-year-old "find" from Atlanta, named Ginger Prince ("42 inches and 42 pounds of Southern charm...
...were the most able, a happy chance considering the amount of plot and dialogue that depends on them. Barbara Nathan as an adoring, breathless, and retired Lizzy Borden, makes more of her short part than anyone else in the east. She is genteel and delicately loony with the greatest charm...
...years. Gentleman Jimmy was forever darting away from his post in the peak-of-prosperity days-to Florida or Europe or simply to the fights. New York didn't seem to mind. Jimmy was the cock o' the walk, a witty, debonair, fashion-plate Irishman who could charm a bird down out of a tree. "Mr. New York," they called him, and the Big Town "wore [him] in its lapel" like a carnation (as one wit cracked), and threw him away when the Big Party of the '20s was over...