Word: acclaim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this year at Merion where for him it is the big number on the title he wants to win. Could he press a button on himself that would put him "down-in-four" at each & every hole, Champion Jones's 1930 record might well be made quadrilateral by acclaim. Straining in mind even more than body, tightlipped, his good-humored smile and easy Georgia drawl in check for the tremendous occasion, Jones will be trying for such precision as he marches over the carefully tailored links. It will help him to remember that over those same holes he qualified...
Last week it appeared that Widow Wagner found him. He was a bushy haired little Italian with a fierce mustache, conductor of New York's Philharmonic-Symphony, the same Arturo Toscanini whose electric renditions of Tannhäuser and Tristan this summer brought acclaim as has been bestowed on no Bayreuth conductor since the War (TIME...
...Author. Felix Salten, born Saltzmann of Budapest, but a Viennese most of his 60-odd years, is known in the U. S. as a novelist, through recent translations of Bambi, The Hound of Florence. In Europe Schnitzler, Wassermann, Werfel- all personal friends-Galsworthy, Mann, many others acclaim him as essayist and dramatist. Some 20 of his books are appearing in an authorized edition in Vienna; the U. S. will have them eventually in English. Last June found him in the U. S. suffering entertainment with quiet, smiling urbanity. A Jew, he is not a Zionist, disclaims all ists and isms...
...Never Since Charles II!" What did it matter that "Winnie" is only No. 2 man in the Conservative Party? Or that No. i Man Stanley Baldwin had decided not to oppose passage of the Act by acclaim? Mr. Churchill is the grandson of a duke (Marlborough) with the fighting instincts of a Grand Mogul or a rat-hunting terrier. Singlehanded, while Conservative whips treated him to blackest looks, Well-dined "Winnie" flayed the Treaty, repeated thunderously his now famed anti-Treaty slogan...
...merely pawing the air. When his elation began to wear off he sat down sulkily, stalked a few minutes later from the House. Other debaters were merely perfunctory. In the nicest sort of British way, without a division, the Act passed second reading in the Commons by acclaim, next night was acclaimed through third reading, went to the House of Lords...