Word: glamoured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Movies really better than ever? Well, that all depends on how you look at them. Frankly though, for a serious mind, the movies will never equal the thrill and glamour of the theatre, the legitimate stage...
...chandeliered ballroom, among television cameras, popping flashbulbs, and flowing champagne, Mme. de Siva watched 15 giggling glamour girls trying unsuccessfully to squeeze their toes into a pair of gold kid slippers, size 3. Mme. de Siva stepped forward. People snickered, but the golden slippers slipped easily on to her tiny feet. Then the judge, no Prince Charming, took a look at black-frocked Mme. de Siva. Said he: "It won't do, it won't do." She was too old to be Cinderella. "But the shoe fits," she cried. Officials took the shoes off her feet, edged...
...William J. Bingham deserve credit for making this contest possible. Before the game, the promoters of Closed and Open will present Mr. Bingham a cup in gratitude for his services. Now is the time to show that you like good, amateur football, even if it doesn't have glamour or technical perfection...
...Eden retains much of the glamour of the handsome, Homburg-hatted Foreign Secretary of the '30s. He is the party's only big drawing card apart from Churchill, and is a much better House of Commons man than his leader, who is growing deaf and is often querulous or outpaced in debate. Eden knows just how much M.P.s will take. He never makes the mistake of seeming virulent or spiteful-and is a past master at the British art of making a speech which seems to be above party politics...
...glamour of being a revolutionary ultimately wore off, and Jones found that his artistic progress was being slowed to a stumble by the party lockstep. Moreover, he found out, rather to his surprise, that the party was not just a place to let off steam but "a political movement." Increasingly enmeshed in the pleasures of bourgeois life, the rising young painter had no time left for party politics. Finally...