Word: glamoured
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When The Hollywood Story was previewed last month at the Academy Award Theater, studio pressagents invited silent-screen veterans to be on hand for the occasion, fulsomely saluted them in publicity handouts as "the Hollywood greats who reigned before the days of the Oscar . . . headliners whose glamour gave the film community its worldwide fame." The invitations billed the affair simply as a tribute to the oldtimers, failed to mention the movie...
...glamour, excitement and anger of the first weeks of General MacArthur's return had subsided; the public, or at least a large part of it, admitted that things were more complicated than they had seemed. It sat back to hear the discussion out. Meanwhile, the impact of Douglas MacArthur had already made firm some decisions which had been tentative, made emphatic some intentions which had been halfhearted, made urgent some programs which had been dawdling...
...Spokane, Wash., Austrian-born Ski Instructor, and former fire extinguisher salesman, Hans Hauser, husband of gangland's Glamour Girl Virginia Hill, asked U.S. immigration officers for permission to leave his home, take his wife and child south to teach skiing in Chile...
...dare you, how dare you ... insult our leading prima donna!" sputtered one irate reader. "You Americans are obsessed with film star glamour." Flared another: "Perhaps in America they enliven Butterfly with troupes of performing dogs." From still another: "You silly little man . . . my advice to you is to take the next plane back...
...undergraduate friends agreed, and within a few days he had signed up 90 of them to act as guides at IDS. a tour. He gave them careful instructions ("You know, point out the Dean's bathroom and that sort of thing"), and to add a bit of glamour, he even hired some London models to accompany each bus out of London and point out the sights along...