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Word: glamorous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Jones | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...work that it will sicken and die of its own perfume. For all its vengeful malice the prophecy is certainly justified by so cloying a title as Trivial Breath, and further substantiated by much that follows the title. Mistress of euphuistic words, she is carried away by their glamor, too easily seduced from reason. An occasional poem "makes sense," but the sense sounds affected. Sorrow is, for instance, one of the emotions the poet rather fancies, and so she mentions it prettily, knowingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perfume | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...adjoining column appears a communication the writer of which looks ahead to the time when many of the more responsible undergraduate positions may have become paid jobs. The loss of glamor in the high places and the growing proclivity of students to study are evident today. Must the assurance of pay counteract these forces to keep life in the extra-curricular work in the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAID STUDENT LEADERS | 10/13/1928 | See Source »

...glorify crime nor heroize criminals by giving a false glamor and thus exciting sympathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A. P. Orders | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Tomorrow evening the CRIMSON will open its first Freshman competitions. Perhaps it would be well to pause here a moment. Since the earliest CRIMSON days there has always been a certain glamor about the first Freshmen competition which finds no exact counterpart in any of the later contest. It is still an honor to be the first man in the class to make the CRIMSON and although the distinction may make no practical difference on the Board itself, there is a traditional respect paid to the editor who led his Freshman competition. Whether he attains any higher office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CALLS 1931 TOMORROW | 2/7/1928 | See Source »

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