Word: acclaim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That day Father Franklin passed a far harder examination and won the undoubted right to call himself the ablest master of U. S. politics in a century. He got the highest mark awarded in the Electoral College in 116 years, a popular acclaim utterly dwarfing even the mob idolatry enjoyed by Andrew Jackson, whose fox-&-hound watch chain Franklin Roosevelt now wears...
...William Shakespeare offered to cinema audiences within the last year. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Max Reinhardt's cinema debut, and Romeo and Juliet, the late Irving Thalberg's masterpiece, had at least one thing in common: neither one has broken records for receipts. The critical acclaim which As You Like It received in London last summer and will receive in the U. S. this winter is not likely to save it from the same fate. Box-office appeal is one of the few virtues the film lacks. A skillful, energetic and scrupulously authentic production, into which...
Copley Square Hotel--An innovation--a champagne dinner after the game--was received with great acclaim by Boston's Best. If you want to meet your friends, head for this lively spot...
...Twentieth Century-Fox). Dimples Appleby (Shirley Temple) lives with her grandfather (Frank Morgan), a lovable, broken-down actor. A rich old lady (Helen Westley) wants to provide Dimples with what that little girl calls a better "envinament." The struggle implicit in this situation is amicably adjusted when Dimples wins acclaim as Little Eva in a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which her grandfather, under cork, disguises himself...
Premier Blum on his Cabinet's front bench grew visibly more and more nervous as the proletariat-pampering section of the bill was belabored by M. Paul Reynaud, long the chief advocate in France of devaluation and last week riding the crest of acclaim. Deputies and Senators who used to scoff at his ideas showed strong inclination to regard him as an expert pilot in the difficult monetary channel France must now navigate. Deputy Reynaud dismissed as of minimum importance the stabilization agreement Finance Minister Vincent Auriol had verbally obtained from U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau...