Word: glamoured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still, with all the glamour and the fame of the stage, Miss Rand is not completely happy. "There is a desire in the artist," she says, "to create and to have her work seen." Because of commercial demands, Miss Rand has been forced to abandon such things as Griffith's "White Peacock," one of the four Roman musical sketches which she has always wanted to dance...
Some stories make large demands on the credulity of their audiences. Jonathan Swift, in the interest of satire, asks his readers to imagine little men six inches high. "The Company She Keeps," in the interest of glamour, asks the audience to imagine Lizabeth Scott as a female parole officer. It is just too much...
...Memphis, Mme. Paul Reynaud, wife of the onetime French Premier (now lecturing in the U.S.), praised the glamour and good looks of American kitchen gadgets. The equipment is so beautiful she said, "I'd probably cook in the living room...
After that, according to Time of Decision, Ted's whole life changed. He began to learn about first aid ("teaches self-reliance and self-preservation"), teamwork ("a help in football"), and how to shoot ("trains the eye and steadies the nerves"). His uniform added glamour ("Boy, will I ever knock 'em dead in this!"), and by the time he was a senior, Ted was so popular that he was "one of the men chosen to escort the campus queen...
...Roosevelt's own inexhaustible fund of chatty conversation and the glamour of her guests (some of the recent ones: Boxer Ezzard Charles, Cartoonist Al Capp, Minister Perle Mesta, Actress Tallulah Bankhead) have given the program a 2.7 Pulse rating against the 2.3 of her veteran rival Mary Margaret McBride. But what disconcerts many listeners is the drumfire of basic-English commercials, fead in pear-shaped Grotonese, with which the show is slittered. Mrs. Roosevelt may murmur to a distinguished guest: "And now I think Elliott would like to say something...