Word: acclaimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Since 1915 a clerk in the post office of his native city, Drammen, Author Christiansen has had long to wait for anything more satisfying than critical acclaim. His first novel The Victor won the critics, sold only a few hundred copies. Subsequent plays and novels got high praise, but sales stayed low. Now all Scandinavia is reading Two Living and One Dead. Flawless in outline, crystal-clear as a Norwegian icicle, it deals with psychological subtleties at high tension with almost miraculous precision, without any witchcraft other than an immaculate literary conscience and a knifelike style...
...fact that graduate students in the arts and sciences are presumably preparing for positions in education accounts in part for the relative poverty of the School in first-rate minds. For, in spite of education's noisy acclaim as the panacea of social ills and the bulwark of progress, the teaching profession still lags far behind others in earning public esteem and in drawing men of outstanding ability. Until the profession acquires new dignity and lustre, the Schools which train for it will remain under a distinct handicap...
...have watched all avenues of social acclaim for the appearance of H. I. H. Dmitri, Grand Duke of Russia, who you stated in TIME, Oct. 12, was booked on the S. S. Ile de France, for the U. S., sailing Oct. 16, same time Premier Laval came over. A few club women of this section desire the Romanov's whereabouts explained. We have been reading Grand Duchess Marie's Education of a Princess this summer, and cannot shake off the sensation of being sort o' responsible for her brother's comfortable, uneclipsed safety. That the sparkling...
...Baker was unable to attend last year's banquet which celebrated the first award and the sist birthday of The American Hebrew. But he attended last week, hailed Archbishop Hanna as "a warrior in the fight against prejudice," hoped that acclaim would "give him the satisfaction which ought to come to even so great and good a man from the admiration and affection of his friends...
Duck Painter Hori was in New York last week opening an exhibition of duck paintings at the Maurel Gallery, paintings that had already received the acclaim of Paris, London, the Detroit Art Institute, the Denver Art Museum...