Word: glamor
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...case he is sincere in his proposal, it is unfortunate that he should have chosen such an efficient way of advertising Mr. Masters' book. If his law is passed, the publishers will have even more cause for rejoicing. The surest way to invest the volume with the entrancing glamor of "truth crushed to earth" is to question its moral worth...
...point of view when they see their school. The university to them becomes an institution which is in the same place every day, rain or shine, which is a good or bad place, depending on whither the student passes of flunks a course, and which loses most of its glamor and color because of years of intimacy with it. For just these reasons, many students at Boston University have an inferiority complex...
...related by any participator. With this in mind, then, it is not hard to understand the annoyance of anybody who experienced the War from the German side, at seeing a representation of a perhaps distortedly realistic and gruesome version of the war, stripped of any spark of heroism or glamor, pass as the version typical to all German soldiers. With the film they felt Remarque ceased to be the author of the plot and instead it was a rather caricatured Germany that held the responsibility. With that feeling guiding their thoughts, it is easily conceivable that the brutalities, the panics...
...childlike repetition of the disturbances and their resulting damage to property and disregard of fellow passengers, including women and children, has stripped them of any superficial glamor they may once have had. They have merely become irritating occurrences in which a few individuals make public nuisances of themselves. We believe they meet with the strong condemnation of the undergraduate body and that any disciplinarian measures on the part of the College would be received with complete approbation...
...dress and consequently is very definitely limited; but even if some trumpet-conscious Maecenas gave from what he had left after the Stock Market crash to buy gilded epaulettes and Cossack helmets for the bandplayers, it would be unfortunate if the musicians succumbed to the glamor and the tinsel...