Word: acclaims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writing reflects the true instinct and feeling of a born naturalist, and he has long been accepted as the peer of men like Ernest Thompson Seton and the late Jack London. Acclaim has come not only from naturalists but? much more important?from hosts of readers who know what's what about storytelling. That celebrated field naturalist, Director William T. Hornaday of the New York Zoological Park, has paid tribute to Mr. Hawkes' "marvelous fidelity" in describing the sunlit world he knew so briefly and in supplementing (as all good nature writing must be supplemented) with lore from trappers, hunters...
...first public performance of "1776", this year's Hasty Pudding Show, will be given tonight at 8 o'clock in the Pudding theatre. The show opened last night to a house crowded with graduates, who were enthusiastic in their acclaim of both action and actors...
Casual but successful experimenting had suggested writing to him as the means to wrest acclaim from the world he despised. When he feared that his only veins were sadistic horror and morbid, sexless romance, he wriggled out of admitting to limitations by translating them into, esthetic ideals. He propounded that perversity is a natural human appetite; that "there is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in its proportions...
...they listened to the Debussy score as little as possible and almost completely ignored the singers, among whom was Madame Ida Rubinstein of Paris. Only when an opportunity to cheer d'Annunzio occurred, did the audience seem in the least at ease. It rose time and again to acclaim...
...Smithsonian expedition of 1909. But there was this about the new expedition: It was, like the Field Museum trip, financed by a noted U. S. business man, by Walter P. Chrysler, whose low-hung, high-speed little motor cars have been darting through the land with wide acclaim in the past three years...