Word: glamorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Courage & Cracks. Like Cartoonist Bill Mauldin (another Yank contributor) Reporter Bernstein presents his G.I.s with affection, understanding, some acid humor, no glamor. In foxholes and juke joints these free-&-easy democrats bristle with the sour, witty, aggressively individualistic, trigger-quick cracks that make the U.S. warrior incomprehensible (and therefore frightening) to his enemies. With a keen ear for idiom and a deft hand with dialogue, Reporter Bernstein has successfully put the G.I. gripe down on paper...
Only the Saudi Arabian princes, wearing burnooses and traveling in limousines supplied by Standard Oil, lent an exotic touch. Spotting the Arabs at the Opera House, a glamor-hungry spectator sighed: "This is more like it." For the most part the San Francisco conferees wore drab, diplomatic grey and black...
Bette Davis is in one way more to be respected than Ethel Barrymore, who originally created the role of the teacher. The role is not a glamorous one, and straightforward, careful Bette Davis gives it no bewilderment of glamor whatsoever...
...bounced from his high-school team because "his feet didn't match." Now he is the glamor boy of college basketball. George ("Scaffold") Mikan stands 6 ft. 9 in his socks, weighs 227 lbs., sleeps in an 8-by-6 bed and looks like a gangling Harold Lloyd, even to the horn-rimmed spectacles. To keep his elongated bones together, De Paul University's mild-mannered Mikan makes away with a daily breakfast of oatmeal, a half dozen eggs, ham, angel cake, three cups of coffee, a cod-liver pill...
William Randolph Hearst, 81 and agile, lauding his Boston newspapers (Record and American) for pulling through the February blizzard with a "really inspiring" production performance, confessed that he still found "glamor" in the newspaper business: "The old days were no better than the new days. I miss nothing except my own youth...