Word: glamourizer
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...scenes of pandemonium reminiscent of 1929, the grey, fortresslike New York Stock Exchange shuddered and shook. Glamour stocks such as Brunswick Corp., Fairchild Camera and Xerox, which had been selling on the strength of capital-gains potential rather than current dividends, crashed to half or even a quarter of their 1961 highs. Mighty IBM, which had become more of a cult than a stock, plummeted from 578½ in January to a low of 300 in June. Dropping like a shot goose, the market lost $23 billion in paper values during a single hectic week in late May, and $21 billion...
...summer clothes, have always brought out the exotic impulse in even the most conservative housewife. Raspberry silk, in the dank gloom of December, is somehow a good deal more raspberry and more silky than when seen in the golden context of a June day. But even with the inherent glamour that comes with trekking out in storm boots to buy clothes fit for sea and shore, this year's selection has an added bit of zing...
...Power. Wall Street's professionals are putting their money on blue chips that offer plump dividends and have steady growth records. The professionals are particularly high on those oil and aerospace companies whose earnings have been on the rise. They are notably cool toward most onetime "glamour" stocks, including many of the electronics and discounting issues, which fell fast during the market break but are still selling for 20 or more times earnings. The conservatives like to stick with issues closer to 15 times earnings...
...aged but loyal pals, nobody gave a hoot about my presence in the city-indeed, that it would help congestion a little if I went away." These words were doubly bitter, for they came from a man who saw himself as a symbol of the excitement and vicarious glamour of newspapering in New York...
...Fish Hook. No newsman, he seemed certain, would ever know such high old times again. He paid his own respects to the times by putting together The Night Club Era, a book that sorrowed over the boozy glamour of "the good old days" in New York, and Mrs. Astor's Horse, a hard-eyed appreciation of the city's café society...