Word: glamorize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movies, in a comedy role, of Pola Negri, fabulous vamp of the Rudolph Valentino era. Cinemactress "Negri plays a Wagnerian diva (the soprano voice is dubbed in) married to Adolphe Menjou. Clothed in sumptuous black & white, Pola is as vivacious and comely in comedy as she was as a glamor girl. Slapstick permits her to be as violent as ever. When her accompanist in the picture accuses her of "bellowing like a cow," the temperamental tigress fetches him a slap in the puss. When somebody urges her not to become violent over Cinemactor Menjou's alleged infidelities, she cries...
Thus last week was introduced a benefit art show of some of the glamor girls of the turn of the century. Given by Manhattan's Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, the show featured the work of the most blandishing portrayers of women in recent history: the late John Singer Sargent and his less famous French friend, the late Paul Helleu (pronounced Ell-uh). Both had undoubtedly, as the catalogue stated, felt the sorcery of young girls and of the ladies in whom the fascination of youth had been replaced by the art of studied sophistication. Both had been...
Most of California's boom-built, improbable, concrete roadside stands of 1923, shaped like coffeepots, lemons, pumpkins, setting hens, hot dogs, were fly-by-night curiosities. But the Brown Derby somehow became the rendezvous of glamor...
California's vigorous Earl Warren, in his first venture eastward, gained the most in stature, as the Washington political correspondents "discovered" him. But the real glamor boy was New York's Dewey...
...reporters folded up and went away. Glamor peeled off, the big house on R Street looked like an old coat of paint. The tantalizing dinners, the high-blown conversation turned as sour and dull as their host's description of them. James Porter Monroe was nothing but dull proof once again that anyone with a fast line, some stationery, a telephone, an expense account, can fool Washington. He did not know his way around; he had no influence. Washington bigwigs went to his house because they are always going to somebody's house. Washington reporters knew all this...