Word: acclaims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amid the acclaim of women Democrats, Mrs. Thomson announced her candidacy, saying: "Should the voters honor me by selection for this post I would look upon it as a step forward for our party and the women of America, and I would necessarily look upon it, not as a personal vote, but more in the light of a generous recognition by the voters of this district of the women of Louisiana...
...organizations. Now he has buried himself in the Kentucky mountains where, with Mrs. Mac-Kaye, he has studied the natives, their strange language and customs and has already written five plays concerning these simple folk. The first (This Fine Pretty World), recently produced in Manhattan, met with high critical acclaim. Such is Percy MacKaye's career...
Frank Swinnerton has arrived in America almost on the heels of the publication of his Young Felix?, a novel rapidly gaining in public favor, and critical acclaim. Swinnerton, himself, is one of the most amiable men in the world. He is short?with small hands which he uses much to emphasize conversational points. He has a red beard, wears glasses, smiles almost constantly. His witticisms?mainly anecdotal and dramatic?follow one another in rapid succession. He is amazed and delighted by America and feels himself mothered by her hospitality...
...under rocks. He feels his way with his pincers, because, despite his eight staring eyes, he cannot see straight ahead. His courtship is an epic, ending in the slaughter of the ardent male by his cannibal mate. Fabre in his last years, though always living in poverty, received the acclaim of Science and of la patrie. He was the friend of many great men-John Stuart Mill, Hugo, Pasteur, Frédéric Mistral, Rostand, Maeterlinck (of whose The Life of the Bee he was the direct inspiration) -but to the end he retained his superhuman patience, humility, cheerfulness...
...musicianship is generally recognized as a sensible and well paying profession, and pupils go to study with the feeling that they are making their way to a secure living rather than with toplofty visions of artistic transcendence and starvation. The organists, while seldom riding in the sunlight of popular acclaim, represent one of the soundest phases of American music. There is a large demand throughout the country for good organists for church positions. The pay is not vast, but it is steady. There is a better and surer living in organ playing than there is in, say, poetry. The organist...