Word: glamourizer
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...city, currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, reeks of opulence: a two-car family might as well be on relief. But the shape of the place and the nature of its glamour have changed since the golden years, when Hollywood's pioneer stars came to the five-square-mile tract of beanfields, carved castles out of the surrounding canyons, and turned a wasteland into myth, when...
...elections approached, there was talk of putting Forrestal on the Democratic ticket. Forrestal had both political ambitions and political glamour. "He has the bearing given to goodhearted gangsters in the movies," Jonathan Daniels wrote. "There is the suggestion of the possibility of violence and the surface of perfectly contained restraint." But Forrestal was convinced Truman would lose in 1948; he stayed out of politics and refused to campaign for the party. In fact, he met a few times with Dewey, giving rise to the rumor that he was making a deal with the Republicans to stay on as Defense Secretary...
...teacher training and the construction of schools. Tubman quite frankly caters to the Liberian love of status and, though the citizens remain as poor as they ever were, Liberia has a TV transmitter for the nation's few sets and a new marblefaced law court to match the glamour of the executive mansion...
...three mile run, which lost much of its glamour when Canadian distance ace Bruce Kidd scratched, provided the best race of the meet. Bob Schul, the favorite in Kidd's absence, led most of the way with Chris Williamson, a 19-year-old Canadian whom Kidd's coach touted as a strong threat, running at his heels. Williamson jumped Schul with about half a mile to go, but he never opened up much of a lead and Schul burst past him with two laps left to win going away...
...their glamour and hustle, short lines will go on being short. Their less than 2% share of total rail revenues last year was a tiny tweet amid the mighty roar of the main lines. Mergers, of course, still take place. The Lehigh & Susquehanna disappeared last year into the Reading, and the Mohoning & Shenango into the New York Central. But one thing is certain: in 1964, the nation's short lines are too various, too scattered-and too content with their tiny place in the sun-for another Pennsy or Central ever to emerge from them...