Word: acclaimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That pays thy many virtues sad acclaim...
...Girls," Dave Wolper's new musical comedy at the Shubert Theatre, has all the trimmings of a good show; yet viewed a an entity it hardly approaches the rare standard of entertainment perfection. A slap-happy public will probably clasp "Follow the Girls" to its collective breast and acclaim it as "grand entertainment...
Died. Dr. James Henry Kimball, 69, longtime New York City weatherman; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. White-maned bachelor Kimball wrote the meteorological classic, Storm Log of the North Atlantic, gained nationwide acclaim in the '20s for his indispensable advice to Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his transatlantic followers...
Before the delegates stood the man called Drug Tito. He heard them acclaim him Marshal of Yugoslavia, the first in history. Now he could drop his incognito, step forth officially as Josip Broz, Croatian metalworker, Communist labor leader and fighter for Loyalist Spain against Francisco Franco. The new Marshal's first act: substitution of the conventional army salute for the Partisans' greeting-the clenched fist...
Sand and Cigarets. More satisfying, probably, to Ernie Pyle is the wide acclaim that has come to him. He gets thousands of fan letters from big and little people. The Charlotte, N.C. Civitan Club sent him a letter of appreciation and a bag of sand, after he had said facetiously in a column from sandy North Africa: "If somebody will just send me a little sackful of sand for Easter, everything will be wonderful." From admirers (members of the Indiana Legislature, the National Press Club in Washington, and just plain people) Pyle has received over $6,000 worth of cigarets...