Word: glamorous
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Beer & Sherry. The one thing London U. lacks is glamor. Its biggest tourist attraction is the fully dressed skeleton of Jeremy Bentham that still glowers from its glass case in the men's staff common room at University College. London students are likely to drink beer instead of sherry, and less than half of them live at their colleges. The rest live at home or in lodging houses about town...
Died. Katharine Brush, 49, glamor-girl bestselling novelist (Young Man of Manhattan, Red-Headed Woman) of the post-World War I speakeasy era; after an operation; in Manhattan. A Boston movie critic at 17, .she was twice married, twice divorced. In the early '30s she moved into a flossy, Joseph Urban-designed Manhattan duplex apartment and settled down at a 15-ft. semicircular desk. But the Depression had left its mark on facile Writer Brush. She began to analyze her own brittle-youth-of-the-'20s stories, and her once glib pen slowed down and stalled. "When...
...Army Field Artillery program ranges somewhere between the dullness of comptroller work and the glamor of flight training. The classic complaint of the artillerymen is that the mortality rate of battery forward observers like themselves was one of the highest among combat forces during World...
Sears, Roebuck & Co. this week mailed out the biggest Christmas catalogue in its history. It contained 402 pages v. last year's 360, listed 30,000 items. Appropriately enough, the biggest section (71 pages) is for toys. Among the new ones: a "Tintair Glamor Girl Doll," whose blonde hair can be dyed two different colors and washed out again ($11.45); a 145-piece army training center, complete with 100 plastic soldiers and a swivel chair in the headquarters building for the top brass...
...hero to his own undoing. He hitchhikes to the distant city, where his rich uncle manufactures swim suits on the vast scale and cuts a swath in local society. There, from a shipping clerk's job in the factory, George catches tempting glimpses of a life of wealth, glamor and importance...