Word: acclaimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brien's not a stop-gap for any Mayor. There'll be general acclaim for my re-election next November...
Eleven months of the year motorcars may be prosaic things of steel and glass. But in January, when the automobile fairs are held throughout the land, this prima donna of the industrial stage is greeted with acclaim and if her appearance succeeds she is well rewarded...
...career, and somewhat overcome by the exuberance of adolescence, for the club was in its twentieth year, H. D. C. produced Michael Gold's "Fiesta," a really excellent tale of Mexican provincial life. In spite of the unusual acclaim it received in Cambridge, the censors declared the play unfit for presentation in Boston, and the show was closed before it had run its allotted number of performances. This came as a great surprise to all those connected with the production, and earnest pleas were made for a reconsideration of the censorship of a play which dramatic critics had considered...
...secretary Richey. Just before 9 o'clock Richey said: "We have conceded nothing yet." Mrs. Hoover was preparing a buffet supper when Jack McDowell, Stanford's alumni secretary, came out and read the message of defeat. After a moment of silence, every one applauded, meaning to acclaim the loser's gallantry. Floodlights on the roof lighted the faces of several hundred Stanford students who now were massing around the house. "S I S S-B O O M-A H. . . . HOOVER!!" roared the students...
...party shall stand or fall in the House of Commons on the principles in which it has faith." "You will tie your hands if you adopt that!" cried Leader Henderson. Hoarse throats shut him up with shouts of "we want to tie your hands!" By a rising vote of acclaim Sir Charles Trevelyan's motion became law unto Laborites. He fired a powder train of resolutions in which the Congress voted last week to: I) Nationalize the Bank of Eng- land and the "Big Five" private banks; 2) abolish the House of Lords as "dangerous and unnecessary"; 3) maintain...