Word: glamoured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William Ward Ayer, onetime pastor of Manhattan's Calvary Baptist Church, warned Protestants against the spell of "individualistic" evangelists. "Biblically orthodox leaders have espoused a loose individualism in which order and decorum in church life have been forsaken, and have allowed appeals by religious 'glamour boys' to capture the imagination of the religious multitude, and millions of dollars have been poured into causes that have little effect upon the advancement of organized Christianity. These . . . unanchored movements, while undoubtedly helpful at times, may easily become the instrument that will disintegrate our organized Protestant church life...
Rubens Without Sex. There is another theory: that Shirley has never been pretty enough to compete with the cuties. Playwright Laurents says that she was late in clicking because "she hasn't any glamour. She has no sex, because she thinks she has no sex. Yet sometimes she is actually beautiful. If you want to go wild, you can see her as a Rubens. But Shirley doesn't think...
...espionage, aid to resistance movements and perhaps sabotage. Armed with all the traditional devices of espionage and a few 20th century improvements, such as plastic explosives and microfilm which can be sealed under the stamp on an envelope, CIA agents spread across the world. Covert activities have a vast glamour, and emphasis on them is effective public-relations policy...
...your June 22 People section, you have really hit a new low: Eleanor Roosevelt touring Japanese coal mines-what sensible miner wouldn't be astonished? Frances Perkins "honored"-by Glamour magazine yet-for 50 years of service to the working girl. They call it "service"? Aly Khan-how thoughtful of him to pick a stud farm this time . . . Lady Astor, an ... arrogant woman, being horrified at the idea that she could have married a U.S. Army officer. Nobody in his right mind would believe it ... And last, the driveling of Diana Barrymore. She observes . . . that women are no damn...
...Manhattan, Glamour magazine honored Frances Perkins, onetime (1933-45) Secretary of Labor, for "50 years of service to the working girl...