Word: acclaimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voter can possibly give backing to a politician like Mr. Curley, who falsely represents the have-not's, who in his past administrations has succeeded only in demoralizing both state government and the state Democratic party. On the other side is a man, who, besides being honest, has won acclaim right here at Harvard as an active and liberal Overseer, which, to say the least, is a rare phenomenon. Consequently, this Republican son of Harvard deserves the votes of the University community...
...this vox populi the voices of British women were definitely a majority, but plenty of John Bulls added hoarse acclaim. It was obvious that the insular British throng cared little for Czechoslovakia, cheered mainly because they felt they will now not have to fight the only power they have feared since Napoleon-Germany...
...contented incomprehension. Although they are not as hungry as Caldwell's Tobacco Roaders, they have the same weary way of repeating themselves, the same facility in wrecking automobiles, the same batlike blinking bewilderment, when some thing new appears. When Decline and Fall, published in 1929, won extraordinary acclaim for its 25-year-old author, critics said that Waugh looked like England's strongest claim to a first-rate satirist. As it was followed with weaker tales, perfunctory travel books, a pious biography of Elizabethan Edmund Campion, and as Waugh became more interested in politics, his novels became more...
...world was harder to get rid of. In Julie, Francis Stuart traces the process in a straightforward book that is notable for its characterization of a 15-year-old girl, especially notable in view of the books by Author Stuart that have preceded it. He won critical acclaim with The Colored Dome and Pigeon Irish-imaginative, poetical, mystical novels in which metaphors skyrocketed and prose flickered so brightly that characters and plot were hard to make out. Julie is plain as an old shoe. For Author Stuart describes Julie's conquering of her fear of the world...
...Last week's treaty practically brings Eire into the British Empire's Ottawa tariff group, provides that all Irish goods enter Britain duty-free while only certain British goods have the same privilege in Eire. The only ones who had no reason to acclaim this re-establishment of virtual free trade with Britain were the owners of scores of new factories which shot up in Ireland behind the tariff walls. Eventually, most of them will probably be forced into bankruptcy...