Word: acclaiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this show they studiously ignored advertising clients. Robert Riggs (Dole pineapple, Goodyear tires) exhibited his circus lithographs, which have steadily won critical acclaim in the past six years. A surrealist painting was hung by famed French Poster Artist A. M. Cassandre (Dubonnet). Instead of seminudes in bathtubs for Cannon towels, Gladys Rockmore Davis sent a demure little girl writing. Peter Helck, who turns out ads for Champion spark plugs, Goodyear tires, refreshed his soul with an antiquated locomotive in a railroad yard. Leon Karp, layout man for N. W. Aver, painted his son in rougher textures than ad clients generally...
...sditors is of small consequence compared to the daily happenings of a follower of the "Old Master." When my 30-month -old son clamors for his adjustment, I know he builton a solid foundation. The eagerness with which my tiny patients await the applicaton of his discovery, is greater acclaim than acquiescence from so-called medical science. Imagien a child clamoring for a hyperdermic "shot" from allopathic potion peddlers. TEDFORD DENNIS, D.C. Madrid, Iowa
Sixty-three-year-old Elkan finally settled in a modest red brick house in London, went on with his sculpture. Commissions were few and small. But little by little, he won British critical acclaim...
...fall of 1938 The Fifth Column appeared in book form, won critical acclaim. Producers again started dickering; to one of them according to Broadwayfarer Leonard Lyons, Hemingway angrily replied: "Fifth Column, sixth draft, seventh producer, eighth refusal." Soon after, he agreed to let Hollywood Writer Benjamin Glazer rewrite the play. Last December the Theatre Guild announced that it would produce the play, with Franchot Tone as lead. Last week (with the financial assistance of Billy Rose) The Fifth Column opened at last on Broadway...
...such boyish pranks as his smoking out the school-house with a chemical mixture, bringing a bottle of nitroglycerine aboard a crowded train, setting the baggage car afire with phosphorus. Not until Tom sends a Morse code warning with a locomotive whistle, prevents a train wreck, do chastened citizens acclaim him a hero...