Word: glamor
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However, a certain sentimental interest is to be discovered in the Schillings affair. The leading soprano role in Mono, Lisa was sung by Barbara Kemp, the composer's wife. To hear your music properly sung by your wife retains a certain connubial glamor...
...cannot be ignored are Ramon and Valentin de Zubiaurre. Fresh color, fine painting, it's all there, with the added attraction of strange foreign scenes-husky Basque fishermen, old ladies spinning, soldiers singing and drinking outside of inns. But he who is not stopped by all this continental glamor will find himself sympathizing with these people and, at the end, wishing to step with them into their pictures and go wandering off to the small multicolored houses in the background...
...when war becomes such that whole peoples can be wiped out in a night by a few waves of gas, it has lost its glamor; it has lost its gallantry; it has lost its excitement; it is world suicide...
American journalists love to speak of "big threes" and "big fours" whether they are referring to the peace conference at Versailles or the football teams of Princeton, Yale, Harvard--and now Dartmouth. There is a certain glamor about it and what the "big three" in the East or the "big ten" in the West are doing furnishes excellent newspaper copy...
...college men, especially Harvard College men, supposedly rational and tolerant, should accept the doctrines of the Klan, founded as they are on blind prejudice and fierce racial bitterness, is extraordinary. It is but little excuse, however much it may serve to explain the situation, that the romantic and mysterious glamor of hooded figures of the inborn American craving to belong to something are probably the real attraction...