Word: glamorously
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...many a month, the World Bank had dangled over a precipice like a melodrama heroine. Last week, while financiers cheered lustily, the Bank was snatched from disaster's clutches. Its rescuer was no wavy-haired glamor boy, but John Jay McCloy, 51, a bald and chunky Manhattan corporation lawyer who had done a bang-up administrative job as Assistant Secretary...
...novel. And the story, after a stunning start, branches and overextends itself and gradually loses contact with humanity. The hero is so near death that he hardly exists as either man or dramatic force; he becomes merely a passive symbol of doomed suffering. James Mason, though rich in glamor, rather embraces than combats the character's monotony. And some of the people he meets (vividly performed by Abbey Players) are even less human and more allegorical than...
Life was dealing pretty severely with the glamor girls-and vice versa...
Innocents & a Broad. Cartoonist Caniff's contribution to the industry was to throw in some curves and give it glamor. Long before he came along the "comics" had generally ceased to be funny. They had learned a thing or two about narrative from Sidney Smith's chinless Gumps and Frank King's morality play about the Wallets of Gasoline Alley. But mostly their idea of action was to have a character jump out of his shoes. Into Terry and the wartime Male Call (for the G.I. press) Caniff poured fast-breaking dialogue, credible adventure - and one touch...
...blue-eyed, relaxed man with an indoor look and a sociable nature. He is almost never seen in the Stork Club or at El Morocco, although many a G.I. or plain reader might naturally assume that Terry's generally sophisticated dialogue was clutched from some such glamor-scented...