Word: acclaimed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usually have functioned too well. It is a long standing characteristic of Melba, as of most prima donnas, that she likes to have the lioness' share of the applause at performances and of the complimentary columns in the newspapers. When a tenor sings with her and gets more acclaim than she does or as much, she looks around for a new tenor. The ambitious fellows with their press agents and claques have presently discovered to their sorrow that the hand clappings and press articles which they have manufactured for themselves, instead of impressing Melba favorably and inspiring...
...cool-headed fellow well versed in the tricks of operatic art, understood all of this. When he was engaged to sing with Melba and went to England, he kept clear of both press agents and claques. He sought neither publicity nor applause, contented himself with a modest and sincere acclaim and was genuinely glad when the grand enthusiasm went to Melba. This attitude delighted her, and soon it was known that where she was invited Johnson was to be invited also. Half the time she was indisposed and could not accept invitations, and Johnson went alone...
...Chrisian Science Monitor is in favor of Prohibition, and for that reason it hates to print anything that would lead a reader to suppose that legislative rulings pleasing to the " drys " are not being received with acclaim the world over...
...Senator Robinson is a democrat, his statement that "no important legislative achievement except bills of a non-partisan nature and except the Fordney-McCumber tariff act can be awarded the Sixty-seventh Congress" is no exaggeration. The passage of the Fordney tariff was not greeted with a universally joyous acclaim. Certain pledges made by Republicans for the creation of a soldiers' bonus have been repudiated along with President Harding's mellifluent promise of an association of nations. The settlement of the British Debt problem, although a step of great importance, was distinctly of a non-partisan nature, while...
Every year hundreds of lonely students come to the University; yet no adequate means exist to provide for these unfortunates. The Phillips Brooks House has persistently disregarded its opportunity for extending its social service work in this direction,--a step which would be received with great acclaim by members of the University, lonely or not. With such a department a working unit in the University it is easily conceivable that the cry for "one three-minute 'aig'" will give place to the more romantic "one eighteen-year blonde...