Word: glamorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...range and subtlety, French cooking is the best in the world, and Escoffier may well rank France's most celebrated gastronomic names. He lacked the lavish glamor of Caréme, but surpassed him in austere art. He lacked the wit of Brillat-Savarin, but Brillat-Savarin was more gourmet than cook. He lacked the temperament of the great 17th century chef, Vatel, but was more imaginative. Vatel committed suicide, impaling himself on his sword because the sole did not arrive in time for an important dinner. When asked what he would have done in Vatel's place...
...years ago radio, in the form of a little table model or an impressive console, held a prominent place in the American home. It sat in the living room and often attracted the whole family in the evening. Then, only six years ago, TV arrived. Overnight, radio lost its glamor. It also lost listeners, advertisers and talent. It began to look, and sound, half dead...
...Matter of Principle. Eden's good looks, quick mind and influential connections came to the attention of Stanley Baldwin. Promoted to Foreign Secretary at the age of 38 (the youngest man to hold the office for almost a century), Eden made the picture pages as the Homburg-hatted glamor boy. As Europe tilted towards war, his earnestness won him a title that was half-admiring, half-contemptuous: "This formidable young man who loves peace so terribly." Then one February day in 1938, Eden told Neville Chamberlain: "There has been too keen a desire on our part to make terms...
Father McDonnell does not object to giving angels human bodies, or even wings. "But we do object to the portrayal of angels as harmless, effeminate creatures bored with a purposeless existence. We object to their portrayal as ethereal glamor queens looking pleasantly ineffectual. Though there are no masculine or feminine angels . . . (there can be distinction of sexes only where there are bodies), yet it is not correct to portray angels as women. God has revealed the angels to us in the masculine: Raphael, Michael, Gabriel. By their nature the angels are next to God. They are powerful beings. The German...
...quite so worth studying as the workings of their own industry are the corollaries that all these folk, with their immense fortunes, are just as miserable as the next fellow and that everyone within a fifty mile radius of Grauman's Chinese is awfully lonely behind the facade of glamor and sophistication. Perhaps these doctrines are healthy sops for those who go whole days without being asked for an autograph, but they are rather boring, especially when thrown into an already crowded agenda...