Word: glamorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discovered soon after the war that khaki and drill lost their glamor and that more attractive allurements had to be found if college men were to enroll in these courses. Therefore in three main ways the courses advertised themselves as being something for little...
...inflicted with a kind of inferiority complex due to the fact that a great majority of their students, or their students families are richer than they. Also many young men are eliminated from the teaching game at the beginning whey they discover that there is not the idealistic glamor to it that they expected. On the other hand, however "the man in business, though he has the chance to earn big money has the chance of losing it too while the professor is troubled with no such nightmare and in addition experiences none of the fierce and continuous competition...
This profound thesis is considerably diluted in a new drama by Britisher Norman MacOwan which substitutes sentimentalism and pasteboard glamor for the more rugged emphasis of the late great Thomas Carlyle. Actor Leslie Banks is introduced as a penniless Scotsman, living morally and thriftily in the garret of a bordello and studying to be an insurance actuary. Actress Helen Menken is a wan creature who faints on his doorstep. He befriends her to the extent of a bed, a portion of his gruel and the services of a doctor. The backslid daughter of a scholar, she can quote reams...
...ears at the opening of the London Naval Conference, but barely twoscore had eyes. Radio voices can leap the Atlantic, but not yet radio vision. Last week the flying brush of an intently listening artist was still the swiftest means of bridging the ocean with the glow and glamor of the conference, the rich stained glass lights and solemn shadows of the fusty Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. There, in the simple garb of a gentleman, His Majesty George V, King and Emperor, Defender of the Faith, stood up with his Prime Minister at his elbow and solemnly...