Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pan-Americanism, says Dr. Quintanilla, is now in its fourth stage. "Bolivar was the romantic hero of our first act; Monroe the star of Act II; U.S. Secretary of State James G. Elaine [who instigated the first Pan-American Conference in Washington in 1889] the principal character of Act III...
To many a Hausfrau, wrinkling into middle age, this saga of the popular author of slick, sleek magazine pap was a thrill beyond her daily hopes. They quickly bought up almost every Ursula Parrott book on the drugstore shelves. But what produced a bitter-sweet romantic sighing in Ursula'...
Stocky, shrewd Xavier Cugat's secret lies not so much in the importing as in the processing of his hip-cajoling products. A master showman, on state occasions he waves a baton three times as long as Toscanini's. He dresses his men in lustrous Cuban silks and...
The Black Swan (20th Century-Fox) dives headfirst into a Technicolored splash of kicking señoritas and their buccaneer abductors, settles down to handsomely routine piratical high jinks. For Sabatini-addicts there is veteran Director Henry King's expert translation of Sabatini's romantic novel about young...
Decentralization is "a beautifully romantic 'back to nature' idea!" But Sert points to the ghost towns of the Depression as examples of what might happen to great cities if they became "the victims of a complete and unplanned decentralization."