Word: glamorize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gone Was the Glamor. But the roulette wheels were still spinning. Monaco had remained an oasis of pleasurable chance in Europe's desert of desperate chances. The wheels were spinning now. True, for U.S. soldiers redeploying from the Riviera, Monte Carlo was out of bounds. True, there were no Britons, Germans, Russians, Italians or Latin Americans, no glittering titles, no lavish profligates. Gambling's heroic days were gone: the days when the Princess Suvarov (descendant of Russia's famed general) assaulted the bank at Monte Carlo for a solid month and left it with a daily deficit...
...Louisville, with most of last year's two-year-old glamor horses benched, not even Colonel Matt Winn's well-oiled tub-thumping machinery could make the 71st Kentucky Derby much more than just another horse race. Hoop Jr. splashed his way to a six-length victory in the richest Derby on record (winner's value: $64,850). Second: Calumet Farm's favored Pot o' Luck...
Coats cost from $12 to $25, suits about the same or a little more. Wool dresses cost $10 to $25. These were price ranges for strictly utility wear which could be found without too much hunting. Glamor could be found only in the Bond Street (London's Fifth Avenue) or Grosvenor Street shops, which specialize in French models -and glamor was expensive last week...
Rita Hay worth, whose pleasing face & figure have never been regarded as military secrets, won the title of No. 1 Back-Home "Glamor Girl" in a poll taken among overseas G.I.s by the Army Pictorial Service...
Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Russia's sharp-eyed, correct Commissar for Foreign Affairs, was rated the top "glamor boy" of the San Francisco conference by Britain's pert Delegate Ellen Wilkinson, Labor M.P. Her one qualification: Molotov (unlike Britain's Eden and America's Stettinius) was not really very glamorous "to look...