Word: glamor
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...addition to alL these obstacles (beside the rumor that he had been a socialist in college) there were other arguments against the whole idea: it was too late to get a campaign organized; the war had made a Third Term virtually certain; no businessman had a chance against the glamor of Franklin Roosevelt. Nevertheless, these stubborn citizens still believed that Wendell Willkie was the best man to be President...
...last week, as war in the Mediterranean sliced across the Orient route of British Overseas Airways, globe-girdling Pan Am announced the opening of two new frontiers, and the glamor of new runs was back in the business again...
That all is not what it seems is naturally well known to Lanny's father, Robbie Budd. A Yaleman sleek and capable as a panther, Robbie turns up in sudden glamor from time to time, goes swimming with his son, instructs him in the munitions game, warns him again & again that the coming war will be "for profit." Father and son have tea with the Munitions King, Zaharoff, who oddly begins to talk like Upton Sinclair: "Suppose some nation should decide that its real enemies are the makers of munitions? Suppose that instead of dropping bombs upon battleships...
When Bimelech was roundly trounced in the Kentucky Derby last fortnight, railbirds refused to pronounce him a cheese champion until they had seen him in another race. Last week, at Pimlico. 55,000 racing fans turned out to see Colonel Bradley's glamor colt run in the $75,000 Preakness, second of the Big Three U. S. races for three-year-olds (1/16 of a mile shorter than the Derby...
...round, soundproof, redwood-paneled tour de force resembling a swanky silo. There Katharine Brush settled down at a 15-foot semicircular desk to turn out more novels, short stories, scenarios of the sort that had made her one of the highest-paid U. S. female novelists and the glamor girl of U. S. letters...