Word: acclaimed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have yet to see any reference in TIME to things German that wasn't "guttural." For instance in TIME, Feb. 22, p. 12. ". . . an official condemnation of Mussolini which they voted with guttural acclaim." Of course the German language is guttural, but did the adjective improve the above sentence one bit ? I rather think it didn't. It "gets on my nerves...
...royal motor drew away amid, acclaim...
Even as the Speisehause tables trembled, while many a platte of ripe Bavarian sausage crashed to the floor, the Deputies of the Reichstag were at work upon an official condemnation of Mussolini, which they voted amid angry gutteral acclaim...
...Alles!" they chanted, and then joined in the old hymn "Grosser Gott, wir loben Dich." Lifting their hands they took an oath to German unity proposed by Herr Adenauer, Ober-Burgomaster of Cologne. From President von Hindenburg at Berlin came a message which the Herr Ober-Burgomaster read amid acclaim: "At midnight the hour of freedom strikes for the first zone of the Rhineland. . . . May the day of freedom soon dawn over the whole occupied territory!"* Where...
...college, led by an extremely able and devoted man, a member of the music department, who prefer to sing the best music and who demonstrate year by year their capacity to sing it well, who are invited to visit a foreign country and are received everywhere with acclaim, who have raised the standard of college music, whose repertoire edited by the leader has been published and sold all over the United States and even in England--why at this juncture, because the club insists on maintaining its standard, should any Harvard graduates anywhere cavil at it? Isn't the Glee...