Word: glamour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this issue, Signature's earnest editors treat the problems of "What is Wrong of Right with College Writing?" by printing two articles of advice to young literary people. Mrs. Jano Pierce, Travel Editor for Glamour Magazine, tells her readers, "Ask Yourself which magazine would seem to be most receptive to your idea--then try to fit it as nearly as possible to the pattern of that magazine . . . Of course if you're a genius, you won't have to worry about those rejection slips anyway." The managing editor of Good Housekeeping advises, "If you write for your own amusement...
...rules-of-thumb for the aspiring back pose as "Advice to the Young Writer," and in the confusion between the two there is a danger that Signature has failed to notice. If a college literary magazine advises young writers to serve up the saccharine puree that Good Housekeeping and Glamour prefer, 1960's novelists may very well be a bunch of alayeys, modeling their work to the taste of every tired, disillusioned woman's magazine editor. Signature would have done better if they tried to obtain local writer-teachers such as Albert Guerard or John Ciardi to give advice. They...
...Ends of the Earth (Columbia) shows Treasury Agent Dick Powell hounding his quarry from San Francisco to Shanghai to Cairo to Beirut to Havana to New York. The picture has something of the gallivanting glamour of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days. It is based on actual files in the Narcotics Bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department...
...were to become a Commissar of Poetry," declared hard-working Anthologist Louis Untermeyer before the Poetry Society of America in Manhattan, "I would remove from every school poetry book the words magic, beauty, wonder, glamour, purple, ecstasy, moon, and spring...
After telling his listeners to discard the "native attitude" that the Foreign Service is a "romance of glamour and purple intrigue," Maddox pointed out that every officer has to do a large amount of hard, and frequently dull, routine work...