Word: glamorize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Metropolitan Opera's brawny glamor boy, Basso Ezio Pinza, who has long had his eye on Hollywood,* took a step in that direction: he announced that he would play the lead in Rodgers & Hammerstein's new Broadway musical next winter...
Grandma Marlene Dietrich (see MILE STONES), asked her opinion of today's Hollywood glamor girls : "There are none...
...very odd coincidence, something went terribly wrong with this mixture: the cement began to harden before it could be poured, and all hands had to get it out of the machine by brute force. Now & then the picture faintly approximates the iron sadness and bitter glamor which Remarque tried for in his novel; most of the time the deep grimness of the subject and the schmalziness of its exploitation get embarrassingly in each other...
...With It? (Universal-International) is a cinemusical about a tent show. The show's supercarnival acts, which had a rich midway glamor on the Broadway stage, have only a cheap midway glare when filtered through the screen. But Song &-Danceman Donald O'Connor comes through brightly as a sort of low-glazed, hickory-cured Danny Kaye...
Cold Perfectionists. But there was something wrong with all of them. They showed a "mechanization of human relationships," described themselves and their spouses as undemonstrative. There was, Dr. Kanner found, "no glamor of romance in premarital courtship, no impetuousness in postnuptial mating." He saw only one mother hug her child warmly and bring her face close to his; many of the busy fathers hardly knew their children...