Word: glamourously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because it deals chiefly with human events, history is a free-flowing record. Subjected to the corrosive influence of set rules, its glamour fades, becomes scholastic, pedantic, certainly unattractive to the great majority of undergraduates. Care must therefore be taken to see that the American History program cannot suffer this fate...
...those who are bored with the inexorable succession of extravaganzas emerging from Hollywood, the French picture "Mayerling," currently showing Danielle Darrieux, as the Austrian Baroness Marie, is refreshingly free from California glamour, and Charles Boyer, as the Archduke Rudolph, is straightforward and masculine. The plot, which concerns their tragic love, is simple and direct, leading to a forceful climax and concluding forthwith. There is no insipid anti-climax...
...would represent in modern Germany is anybody's guess, but Terence, the egotistical potter who briefly became an Emperor, is a dead ringer for Hitler. "To be an Emperor and a Leader meant nothing more to him than demonstrations, great public shows, parades, new buildings, brilliant festivals, power, glamour and above all speeches. When confronted with political and economic problems he withdrew with a dignified shake of the head into his divine majesty, convinced that if serious difficulties arose his inner voice would at once show him the right way." And to those who think Germans are happy, Author...
...athletes should be paid, according to Eleanor Holm Jarrett, Olympic champagne swimmer and glamour girl of sport, interviewed in her suite at the Ritz-Carlton. "Football players support the college and should be paid for their work," she declared. She saw only "the name amateurism" as a stumbling block to her solution of the problem of professionalism in college football...
Equally critical of movie stars, Miss Marsters termed them as "talkative . . . not handsome and without glamour." No real man would be a movie actor," she expanded. Of the numerous famous characters of the sports world she has interviewed, Max Baer is tops. But even the popular play-boy prize-fighter comes in for his share of Marsters' abuse as being "dizzy" and "punch-drunk...