Word: glamoured
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Plentiful enough are the "bad boys" of the screen, but in a fashion-parade Hollywood Bette Davis alone dares to strip herself of glamour, to forget camera-angles, and rely on ability alone to succeed in unattractive roles...
...House, a musical era reached its end in Manhattan. For 27 years Giulio Gatti-Casazza had guided the Metropolitan's affairs shrewdly and cosily. At its best his long regime stood for many a stirring performance, for the presentation of many a top-notch singer, for real opera glamour. The end was different. Though the tired old impresario was granted every honor, his spirit seemed broken when Depression left his Company impoverished and its directors resorted to a tin-cup campaign...
...most extraordinary quality of Seven Pillars of Wisdom is that, almost alone among modern War books, it invests warfare with a degree of glamour and heroism. Nor is this quality purchased by avoiding the gruesome butcheries, stench, gore and decay characteristic of battlefields. The glamour of Seven Pillars of Wisdom springs from the fact that most of the actions undertaken, audacious examples of individual daring such as raids into enemy country, are described with a light and mocking air, as if they were little more than schoolboy pranks. Lawrence evidently treasured all human life except his own. He was constantly...
Precisely where Edwin Dodge fitted into this strange life is by no means clear, since at critical moments in the narrative he seems always to have been in the U. S. Hospitable, inquisitive, wide-eyed, awed by the glamour of European reputations and European love affairs, Mabel Dodge was often irritated by her husband's "inferior sophistication," his Boston facetiousness, his lack of respect for famed visitors, as well as by his occasional puritanical insistence that certain forms of nonsense stop...
...good fortune was only beginning. Chardon made her a star. To surround her with glamour, he let it be known that she had been the mistress of Camilo el Durqui, Argentine sportsman, who supposedly had been lost on a transatlantic flight-the same eccentric, grocery-delivering millionaire. As Coralee rose to fame on this hoax-"all Paris twittered over her aura of mystery"-Camilo el Durqui returned, uninjured but angry...