Word: charm
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...administrator who would stand no nonsense. But for all his love of sport, Lord Willingdon is not young (64). Cautious observers questioned whether he had the physical strength to meet the trying task that awaits him. Murmured the London Times: "[He] will need something more vigorous than charm and tact...
...went on a journey. But he supplies you with the same kind, so he makes a good companion. Traveler Baerlein speaks foreign languages like a native, and everywhere he went people would drop whatever they were doing to engage him in extended and animated chats. Such was the charm of his tongue or his appearance that a chambermaid in a hotel, a respectable woman with a son, left her job to go walking with him. Other occasional companions were a gypsy fiddler, a bishop, a mayor. Once a beautiful peasant woman fell in love with him for a night, begged...
Wesley was small, dictatorial, sure of himself (Wade calls him a "hard, pertinacious little paragon") but he must have had a certain charm. Literary Tycoon Sam Johnson who knew and liked him once complained: "I hate to meet John Wesley. The dog enchants you with his conversation, and then breaks away to go and visit some old woman. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk...
Manhattan, says Morand, is an open book: he who stands still may read. "It takes several months to appreciate the damply diffused grandeur of London; it needs a few weeks to catch the dry charm of Paris; but let yourself be taken to the middle of Brooklyn Bridge at dusk and you will understand New York in 15 seconds...
...doctor in Naples. Italy is Dr. Munthe's love, and even his Parisian subjects are Italians in exile: Hurdygurdler Don Gaetano, Tragic Poet Monsieur Alfredo, Model Raffaella. Though his tales are by nature grim, Author Munthe has whimsied them into wistfulness which never quite loses an old-fashioned charm. His humor is of the same mellow vintage. On a vacation at Ischia he struck up a friendship with a donkey. "Each morning came my neighbor, the old donkey, and stuck in her solemn head through the open door, looking steadfastly at me. I always wondered why she stood there...