Word: glamorizing
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...redistribution of funds produced by wagers, won and lost, on the next sport to be glorified by the versatile female athlete who posed for a gasoline company as "Power," "Speed," and "Balance," in successive months. Undoubtedly bill-board advertisements, like traveling salesmen and muddy weather, being unpredictable, have added glamor to life, and being thoroughly vexing, strength to the human character...
...alike in pursuing their objects fast, noisily, and "efficiently." After all, aside from aims and standards, the successful criminal represents much that is worthy per se: certainty as to goal and attainment through careful planning; not to mention the acquisition of a competence and a certain Robin-Hood glamor and daring...
...influence of the Communists in America, in spite of conditions favorable to their activities, is noticeably weak. While their friends in Russia are overcoming the inertia of centuries of aristocratic incompetency, they hurl insults and repeat the old catchwords which have a strong emotional glamor, but, when they stand alone, no definite meaning. When they are permitted to harangue bystanders, Communist orators quickly exhaust their supply on invectives, and only the arrival of the police can make their demonstrations interesting even to the most bitter opponents of capitalism...
...inevitably mechanical performance must succeed to a notable Harvard and Oxford tradition in debating, we ought at least to go into the new order without any illusions as to what we are doing. We are sacrificing the ideal of the sport for the sport's sake to the glamor and tinsel of recognition by an audience. Henry C. Friend...
...Montrealers turning out for a hockey game between Harvard and McGill has prompted Canadian sportsmen to bemoan the infrequency of such international matches, and to start agitation for the formation of a hockey league to be composed of McGill, Toronto, Harvard and Dartmouth. After having subtracted the international glamor and the natural Canadian enthusiasm for the sport, the idea of closer hockey relations with Canadian teams still seems to be exceedingly worthwhile...