Word: glamour
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glamour which attended the naval festivities yesterday in Portsmouth has undoubtedly struck a note of wonder in the minds of the American public. For, to the tune of celebrating salutes, Mrs. Charles Francis Adams had the honor of christening a new giant submarine to be added to the nation's fleet. Marking one more step in the government's policy of defence, the occasion at once assumed national importance...
...above race, creed, religion and politics. No acclaim, no glamour. Just devoting a life to life's noblest work, "helping the other fellow along...
...title Governor-General, there is the glamour, and also the distance of some far province like the Philippines. Since colonial days the title Governor has waned in glamour, but waxed in its direct power over the lives of U. S. citizens. This year, 35 States chose Governors-Maine last September and 34 States last week. In every State, where a real contest existed, citizens awaited for gubernatorial results with less emotion than for presidential, but with scarcely less concern. For politicians, gubernatorial results were almost as important as presidential because of the local patronage at stake...
...great actresses of the last generation are difficult to appraise in this one, a time of more rapid reputations and artificial fame. Theirs was a period when the glamour of the stage seemed a more tangible thing. Because the roles they played were generally those of people far more splendid than real ones, the impersonators, subtly identified with their parts, became themselves remote and dazzling creatures. They lived, one imagines now, in a labyrinth of complex and uncomfortable luxury. Their lovers were lords or poets and their love affairs were not casual encounters but tragedies as poignant and improbable...
...marked by a coal black nigger boy called Henry Christophe. He listened to their conversation, his clever gentle eyes following their shots with melancholy speculation. "They talked of their Negro mistresses and of the comely mulatto whores who supplied Cap null with whatever its quiet, oppressive nights had of glamour, passion, and forgetful laughter. . . ." Henry Christophe never interrupted his masters...