Word: glamorize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fund's everyday work will go on-providing bread, hope and Front for faded glamor girls, leading men gone paunchy, directors gone seedy, ailing script girls...
...were rolling methodically through Poland, and children were being evacuated from London last September, one Bradshaw Crandell, Manhattan illustrator, announced that a bright-eyed, blonde debutante named Patricia Plunkett had "what a girl needs to be beautiful," and started 18-year-old Miss Plunkett on a career as a glamor girl...
Originally a title conferred by gossip columnists on debutantes who haunted Manhattan's night spots, glamor girl is today an occupation, sponsored by pressagents of such eating joints as the Coq Rouge, Stork Club, 21, and publicized by columny. Debutante No. 1 lives in a world startled by the explosion of flashlight bulbs, appears with glamor boys like "Billy" Livingston, Jaro Fabry, Heinrich Orth-Palavicini...
Last week, at the Coq Rouge, swank Manhattan supper club, Bradshaw Crandell's nominee became 1939's official No. 1 Debutante, successor to the glamor crown of last year's Brenda Diana Duff Frazier. Of 300 debutantes asked to rate their choices by the Coq Rouge's pressagent, 95 had answered. They gave Miss Plunkett 72 votes, 20 more than brunette Patricia Suydam, who ran second...
...last week the Coq Rouge gave Patricia Plunkett a beauty kit. To Runner-Up Patricia Suydam (daughter of Realtor Hendrick Suydam & Mrs. Richard A. Cunningham) went a flacon of Hawaiian perfume. To Ridgeley Vermilye of Plainfield, N. J., well back in third place, went a new hat. Meanwhile, 1938 Glamor Girl Brenda Frazier, home from Nassau for Christmas, was seen as usual at Manhattan's La Conga in the morning's early hours. Her current escort is Cartoonist Curtis Arnoux Peters (Peter Arno), twice divorced...