Word: glamorizing
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...gently from the tapering hand of Greta Garbo, flung sideways on a sofa which she does not occupy alone. Like Author Arlen and unlike Will H. Hays, Miss Garbo and John Gilbert are among the most conspicuous romanticists of this epoch. Each knows how to invest emotions with the glamor dear to reveries although not found in life. Director Clarence Brown has made the most of tremendous box-office possibilities by sticking closely to the original novel. Best shot: Greta Garbo driving an Hispano-Suiza...
...first rilogy that earned Author Undset the Nobel prize, for Kristin Lavransdatter combines the glamor of saga with the timelessness of fine fiction, the accuracy of sound history...
...answer is probably to be found in the unique character of college life. The conception of an existence at once free from financial responsibility and separated from family ties is far from generally the case in any college; yet there is sufficient element of truth to give it a glamor that sets it apart from the more usual way of living. It follows that the same interest in the unfamiliar and mysterious that gives the tabloids their circulation will, when applied to another field, produce equally distorted results. The stenographer who devours the latest love-nest scandal and the matron...
...even grants her her virginity. But to Lytton Strachey no meretricious novelty is necessary, such is the compelling freshness of his interpretation, and such the uncanny vitality of his art. Elizabeth has always made engaging reading, but from Strachey's pages she emerges in all her living bizarre glamor to fascinate a jaded 20th century as surely as she fascinated the sensitive enthusiasts of her day. And it is not the youthful Elizabeth, but Elizabeth in her triumphant old age-her enemies outplayed and outlived; her darlings still vying for her favors. In vivid galaxy enemies and darlings alike...
...glamor of railroading is summed up in two words-Casey Jones. Mention these words to any engineer, fireman or roundhouse worker, and he will immediately be your friend. If he doesn't start singing, he will tell you a pack of grand stories...