Word: glamorize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...astonished cinemagnate asked how in the world he had managed to assemble such a glamor show, when the Government had often tried it and sometimes failed. "Our Lady," the priest replied, "can do a lot better than the Government...
...that what Congress meant the G.I. Bill of Rights to do? O.W. Price, regional education director of the Veterans Administration, doesn't think so. Said he in Los Angeles last week: "Many veterans choose courses that will be of no vocational benefit. Others continue to enter certain glamor courses where employment opportunities are either poor or do not exist [e.g., flying, television, plastics]. It seems a downright shame to see them frittering away their valuable benefits." The trouble, said Price, lies with state agencies which authorize frivolous courses which the Veterans Administration is bound to approve...
...Defense, erased himself from Democratic dopesters' tickets. He took back publicly what he had privately told some friends-that he would be glad to be Harry Truman's vice-presidential candidate (TIME, Aug. 25). Said Forrestal: "I've never taken myself seriously as a political glamor character. Even with both ears to the ground, I've never heard the faintest suggestion of even a distant drumbeat...
Golden Earrings (Paramount) must have been intended as quite a novelty. Audiences were to thrill to the spectacle of a Dietrich Without Glamor: her famous legs lost in gypsy petticoats, her looks in gypsy greasepaint, her trick accent reduced to gypsy gutturals barely distinguishable from stock-company wigwam banter...
Something Steady. This wedding, on a dark day of a troubled, distracted and most uncertain time, carried over six continents and seven seas a brightness so simple it was hard to understand. Its appeal was too nearly universal to be explained by such words as "glamor," "publicity," "sentimentality," or even by harsher and more present words, such as "power" or "wealth." Of the millions who spoke and wrote of it, perhaps a London linotyper and an archbishop came closest to saying what it meant...