Word: enchant
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Surrealist Dali suggested to his hostess that it would be fun to "enchant" Hampton Manor into a surrealist paradise. Mrs. Crosby was enchanted with the idea. Together they set to work. Their plans called for gigantic statues of daddy longlegs with the faces of Greek goddesses and medieval heroines, "a headless woman from the recipe of a surrealist magician of the Middle Ages," perfumed fountains, loudspeakers making moans from the bushes, corpselike manikins with flowing hair trailing in the waters of a pond. Said Mrs. Crosby: "I am doing this enchanted garden as an experiment with the white magic...
...collegian is Joe E. Brown, whose strange face, rasping voice and alligator mouth enchant some cinemaddicts, embarrass others...
...Ramsgate Pier. His plays were refused. People asked for more fairy stories. In 1847 and 1848 two new volumes were published. He wrote a romance, a book of travel; they failed to sell. "Fairy stories," readers begged. So, still disdaining them, he wrote more of these small tales that enchant children and philosophers, poets and delinquents, because in their translucence the mind sees its own reflection. One evening Hans, whose first friend was a pig, and his last a king, fell out of bed so awkwardly that he gave himself a hurt from which he never recovered. He died...
Thirty elevators will assist the goings in, the comings out, of the missionary guests; a swimming pool will assist them to approximate godliness; twelve roof gardens, laid out in perennial shrubs and beds of hardy flowers, will enchant their leisure; the maximum charge of $21 a week will cover board, two meals on week days, three on Sundays, radio service, hospital and gymnasium privileges. The building will cost...
...sense of humor 4 grant that there is none such might bring out an American Chauve-Souris which could tour Europe with notable success; but nobody would listen to it, though their eyes might burst in wonder, for only in Russia could he find such voices as those that enchant or dominate the air of Balieff's Bat. From the piercing shriek of Katinka, through the lyric beauty of the soprano, the sombre resignation of the contralto, the passion of the tenor, the expansiveness of the baritone, to that epitome of Slavdom, the resonance of a Russian bass--all were...