Word: glamorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hulking, ruddy figure into national politics by "preaching the doctrines of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. ... I am standing now for what the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence stood for. What was good enough for them is good enough for me!" Specifically, and divested of glamor, that means: 1) No Geneva parley or League of Nations entanglement; 2) flood relief; 3) inland waterways; 4) farm relief. Mayor Thompson wants the West to know that his championship will go to the man who, red-blooded and foursquare, stands upon such a platform as candidate for the Presidency...
...least, the movement takes away a certain amount of glamor from a favorite field of writers of boys' stories of the Putnam Hall variety. It marks the passing of romantic, if cardboard, figures--the Big Man in the school. Big Men there will always be, of course, in a manner of speaking, but the possibilities of the grand style are now being drained away. No longer is one man, by virtue of combined athletic, political and social prowess, to rule, in the pages of fiction at least, the community of which he is a member--carried about the place...
Toward his writing, too, he will find a reaction. Here as in England people have decided that his glamor is false; that no one, except in books for maids and butlers, was ever so gallant, arrogant, terse of speech, deep of feeling, precious of wit as Mr. Arlen's high-strung Mayfairians...
...would have specialized to the greater glory of his art, however, at the expense of the glamor of his personality, and we would have been robbed of a figure that typifies to us the Renaissance...
...glamor of love seems to flee very soon. We wonder what we can do to retain that elusive thing called romance...