Word: acclaiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suckers are the people who are sold on names, and who acclaim any daub that bears a famous signature...
...Most recent poem of widespread acclaim was "American Was Promises" in 1939, rivaling in quality the Pulitzer Prize "Conquistador...
Seeing pictures in Boston frequently poses a problem of sorts, an end-result of the Hub's almost inevitable end-of-the-line spot when first-run dates are being dished out. Thus it often is difficult to find films free from the deluge of critical acclaim or dismay that the New York papers and the weekly magazines unloose. Such a case is the one at hand, for the sheaves of outpourings, pro and con, in regard to this Danny Kaye extravaganza make it rather difficult to uncover anything...
...predictable as next year's Democratic majority in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Screen rights to this novel of 18th Century France sold for $350,000 last May; it is the Literary Guild choice for October, and thus sure of sales in the hundreds of thousands. To these rewards, critical acclaim is not likely to be added on the same scale. Proud Destiny resembles War and Peace in the general aim of treating great events (in this case France's part in the American Revolution) in terms of the people who enact or suffer them. The resemblance does not go much...
...Tear in the Eye. Flynn believes that graftless government is good politics (at least in The Bronx). Politicians of Flynn's kind, knowing that they are more honest than they have to be, are disappointed when the public withholds full acclaim from politicians who take their main pay in power rather than in boodle...