Word: acclaims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rousseau persisted. By 1907 the world had begun to acclaim him as one of the most important of modern French artists, and painters who had once laughed at him were trying to forget their education and paint like Rousseau. At this tribute Customs Inspector Rousseau, who always considered himself a realistic painter, was not the least bit surprised. Remarked he, demurely, to famed Modern Artist Pablo Picasso: "We two are the greatest painters of our time; you in the Egyptian style, myself in the modern...
...tortuous march among the Houses, the crowd sang, yelled, and cheered the entire first team and subs individually. The 45 minute soiree was plentifully spiced with speeches by Vern Miller, bulky ball-hawk. Jayvee Captain Bill LaCroix, Coaches Clark and Harlow, and other Crimson luminaries. Harlow drew extra acclaim when he named Harvard perhaps the only college where the football players are still an integral part of the student body, rather than an exclusive elite...
...There was no "dog-show din." What TIME'S misguided reporter heard was a genuinely enthusiastic acclaim of the year's best actress...
...Bali, Sugar and the like, and if anybody knows how to make those old numbers really kick, it's Hackett. Furthermore, there's Brad Gowans (valve trombone), the one musician Bobby brought with him from New York. It's not the kind of smooth staff which generally achieves public acclaim, but then Tommy Dorsey never played hot. Take your choice. Finally, it's pleasant to learn that the Versailles will have its first Sunday evening jam session tomorrow. Bobby will M.C., and Pee Wee Russell, of the rubber face and dirty tone, will play clarinet as featured guest...
...opportunities were limited, her observations bitter. At 20 she married a fellow Southerner and started work on her first novel, a long, cloudy story of a deaf-mute. Appearing last year under the publishers' makeshift title of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, it won great critical acclaim. With the money from her book, Carson McCullers moved to Manhattan in search of kindred spirits...