Word: glamorize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the seeming optimism of his title, Sherwood provides no pick-me-up for audiences with headline hangovers. Through the Finnish gloom, Sherwood sees no light of imminent world salvation. He only argues, rather vaguely, that because glamor and heroics have at last gone out of war, men are that much closer to understanding war's horrors, and so ending them...
Combining beauty and polse with the well-known Oomph, Miss Mardi Dickinson of Winchester outstripped all other contestants and won hands down the title of "Glamor Girl of the East" among Harvard undergraduates...
WILD GEESE CALLING-Stewart Edward White-Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). Still to be written is a good novel about Alaska pioneers, Jack London's glamor books about the Klondike notwithstanding. Staking claim to be the first, this story of Alaska's plain pioneers is the 577-page tale of an idyllic young couple who drifted to Alaska from the Pacific Northwest, let the gold rush go by, while Husband John trapped, hunted, logged, did odd jobs, also proved he could outshoot and outfight the best of them. No less sentimental than prolific Author White's 21 other picturesque...
...Lincoln's gaunt figure has stepped out of the homey precincts of the stage and exposed itself to the glamor of inquisitive Klieg lights. But it has forfeited none of its earthy humanity; its shady sides have not been glossed over by a halo of legend and heroism. A classic of the modern American stage, Robert Sherwood's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" has now become a classic of American moviedom...
Adding spice to its annual salon, the Union Photographic Society has announced a special contest to choose the "Glamor Girl of the East" from among the belles of Bryn Mawr, Sarah Lawrence, Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, and other female institutions...