Word: glamor
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...before fighting for the world's heavyweight title, is kept awake all night by her tap dancing in the room above. He loses the fight, earns another crack at the title, wins it. When neither he nor Mabel proves a box-office draw, a press agent gives them glamor by a fake romance. This evokes wearisome bickering, which suddenly ends when hungry Cain surprises Mabel cooking a pork chop. They take to meeting surreptitiously in the public library, kissing behind a book on ichthyology. This state of affairs is ruptured by the machinations of the press agent. Before...
...Hearst Chicago Herald & Examiner, differed from the accepted standards of such journalism in two notable respects: 1) readers applying for the questionnaire were charged 25? for answers; 2) name signed to the column was that of no hack journalist, but of Irene Castle McLaughlin, America's pre-War Glamor Girl, now a Chicago socialite and that city's most noted dog-lover. From each 25? fee collected, Mrs. McLaughlin gets a portion. Questioners are also incipient customers for stores selling hats sold by Irene Castle, Inc. A ringing silver flood of 1,000 quarters a day last week...
...Vigilante" first became a popular U. S. word in the 1850's when California's citizenry undertook to discipline the more irrepressible of those who went West for gold, gambling and glamor. Instead of dying out with the establishment of law & order, Vigilantism in California remains a potent and honored means of squelching those suspected of Communism. Typical was the treatment accorded last August to Silva M. A. ("Jack") Green, sign painter. and Sol Nitzberg. chicken raiser. Reds who promoted an apple-pickers' strike in Sonoma County. One night a band of unknowns seized Green and Nitzberg...
...Stars Fell on Alabama, Carl Carmer wrote an engaging, popular book about a State that is rich in local color. Now Author Carmer has tried hard to distill the native glamor from a region where the conventional trappings of romance are not nearly so conspicuous as they are in the South. His new field is upper New York State, superficially a prosaic region of farms, sprawling industrial cities, narrow towns...
...certain oldtime glamor kept company with the Russians wherever they went. The series of books on Nijinsky and the old Diaghilev company helped to inspire enthusiasm. The old Diaghilev ballets have had the greatest success. The youthful company has worked hard to interpret them faithfully, boasts several leading dancers who have conspicuous talent. From the Diaghilev company came Léonide Massine, the galvanic maître de ballet whose dancing is marvelously fleet and polished. Another Diaghilev dancer is Alexandra Danilova, a piquant ballerina trained in Petrograd's Theatre Street. Beau Brummel of the company is black-haired...