Word: glamorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tradition Lends Glamor...
Tradition of the past few years has thrown over Harvard-Dartmouth hockey meetings a titular glamor. In 1926, the two sextets, Crimson and Green, came neck and neck down the home stretch of the ice season, and a 3 to 2 victory gave Harvard the mythical crown of the eastern ice. Last year, after an early 4 to 2 loss, the Indians rallied in the second game to battle through three overtime periods to a 3 to 2 tie and a share in the glory of the championship...
...Birtwell's style affects the colorful and dramatic. By deft combinations of his typewriter keys he can invest an incident of seeming insignificance with an ours of mystery, a glamor of confidential secrecy, or a cloak of magnificent magnitude. At times he adopts, and very successfully, the attitude of an author of "Things I Shouldn't Tell". The fact that he never does tell them only renders his writings more interesting to the reader...
...catch-words used to express the fact that ten Harvard men of the same class might meet in after life not only previously unacquainted, but with nothing to stamp them alike; and this helps also to explain, perhaps, why all attempts to convey the sense of glamor in stories with a Harvard background, as Fitzgerald has used the background of his university, have failed completely; why Harvard, to the average mind; never suggests the nebulous, romantic ideal of college life...
...from them by the high wall between the bright gardens. They have for her at first the unreality, the incongruity, the strange definiteness of the people in her dreams and thoughts; they are close and unapproachable like strange voices overheard in a forest. Then the strangeness but not the glamor fades; she is bored by friendly, clumsy Martin; pities shy, remote, hedonistic Julian; loves Roddy, who is suave and erratic, quiet and incalculable. After that summer of reacquaintance she goes away to Cambridge...