Word: glamoured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people who have not studied directly under Professor Merk realize all the implications of such an approach to American history. The glamour of the Santa Fe trail and Indian wars are a part of it. So is the story of our conflict with Spain, Russia, and England in the Oregon country...
...Glamour." A modest, monastical-ly-minded bachelor who disdains money and "glamour," takes St. Francis of Assisi for his model, Mitropoulos once surprised Minneapolis society by living in a cubicle in a University of Minnesota dormitory; he donated much of his $25,000 salary to needy composers. He has not changed his ways in Manhattan. Last month, when he took the Philharmonic into Manhattan's Roxy Theater as the stage attraction (partly to reach new audiences), he turned half of his own $5,000-a-week salary over to the orchestra's pension fund. He lives alone...
When Dixiecrat Laney tried to picture Sid McMath as a traitor to the South, supple Sid declared against such pet Truman projects as FEPC and compulsory health insurance, but still capitalized on his closeness to Harry Truman. Ben plaintively confessed that he had never learned "this glamour-boy, superman style of politicking," and even before primary day admitted: "He has had only 18 months in which to make political enemies. I had four full years...
Last week Arkansas voters went to the polls, by a two to one majority gave Glamour-Boy McMath his second term in office, and a feeling that the best of his career was still ahead...
Silent Movie Vamp Gloria Swanson, 51, making a Hollywood comeback in Paramount's forthcoming Sunset Boulevard, revealed that she is also having a go at the literary life. Still at work on a book about "glamour over 40" for Prentice-Hall, she has agreed to write her autobiography for Doubleday...