Word: acclaims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minutes, 16 seconds aloft, the plane came to earth. Out of the fuselage stumbled the crew, shouting greetings. For Lieutenant Quesada, a dish of ice cream; for Sergeant Hooe, a dress suit; for Major Spatz, a shave ; for them all and for the Question Mark there was the acclaim which they had won by keeping a seven days' vigil, so they might snatch from the clouds all existing records...
Cheering which echoed through the dining room of the Harvard Club of Boston, where the announcement was made last night at a dinner to the University eleven, sounded acclaim for five minutes after the statement was made by W. J. Bingham '16, director of athletics...
Occasional perusal of the editorial columns of the Boston Transcript should be sufficient to familiarize any reader with such characteristics of that paper as political prejudice or smug contempt for new and radical ideas. No one is surprised to see Transcript editors acclaim as inspired every word which issues from a Republican month, dismiss with a shrug the work of advanced political thinkers, or threaten the country with imminent ruin from communist machinations. But complete as the conservative and reactionary attitude of the Transcript may usually be, it is still able on occasion to surprise the most constant...
There was no fatted calf, no purple robe, no new ring for his finger when Leopold Stokowski stepped up on the dais last week for the season's first Philadelphia Orchestra concert at the Academy of Music. But there was the same blond halo and the wildest acclaim Philadelphians permit themselves. Their prodigal was home and great was the rejoicing. He had had them worried.. All manner of mystic rumors had drifted in from his Far East trip. He would return. He would not return. He had been hypnotized by Indian and Javanese music. At best he could...
...scholarly writer of some 25 volumes on sociology, finance, colonization, ethnology, migration, marriage, and political and social science. Though President Hainisch's hobby is milk cows, he is even now industriously and perhaps dutifully at work upon a new tome, to be entitled The Theory of Competition. Austrians acclaim him the smart son of a smart mutter...