Word: glamor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fiction draw the public interest because they are supposed to throw the spotlight on what goes on, and how, behind the academic walls. It is the wise author who lets his dashing young rascal fade into obscurity with his A. B. under his arm and the aureole of glamor still about his head. One had as leave read about Tom Swift after his adventures are over and his magic flying machine stabled in the garage, as pursue the maturity of the plastic age settling into stodgy concrete...
...iron-puddling. At 16, he was admitted to the union and soon was a master puddler. Many years later, when he had become Secretary of Labor, when he was reputedly worth a million dollars, Mr. Davis published an autobiography, The Iron Puddler, in which he told of the glamor of his onetime...
...Harding no one would ever have seriously suggested Mr. Coolidge for the Presidency. The fact is he was so negligible a quantity that he might easily have failed for renomination as Vice President. He was in Washington in 1922 a political joke and would still be but for the glamor of the Presidency...
...only did he sweep a large part of the Democratic ticket into office with him, but he established himself as the most mentionable personality in his party until the 1928 Presidential nomination is settled. His hold on New York State-more specifically New York City-is partly the glamor of the Fulton Fish Market, the "sidewalks of New York" and the band-snorting pow-wow.* But, also, he makes it a point to know more about the government of New York than any of his rivals and he explains it to the people better than any one else...
...western fringe of Chicago is a polyglot population of 62,000-Irishmen, Italians, Sicilians, Slavs and many another tribe. The Western Electric Co. employs thousands of them; other industries are near and plentiful. But it is to the gangs of the Bad Lands that Cicero owes its headline glamor. Up and down its streets, fiery Sicilians and raucous Irishmen playfully squirt machine guns at each other. On other days they go zooming into Chicago with truckloads of beer. And then, when the day's labors are done, they have their 60 "soft drink parlors," their brothels, and their roulette...