Word: acclaims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scraped raw with song, "are more generous to me than I deserve." The house shrieks indignantly, because this is practically abdication; but finding that its idol is only introducing his tribute to the band ("not only very wunnerful musicians but each one my very dear friend"), it roars obedient acclaim, and the band rise to their feet with the sulky air of men who know that they are only another man's gimmick. For Mr. Ray's gimmick is to affect a touching humility before the gifts divinely bestowed...
...world, during which he will visit twelve countries. Cruising from port to port in the Mediterranean aboard Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis' luxury yacht, Swedish Sphinx Greta Garbo spent her 50th birthday at sea. Confident that she would swim the English Channel round trip and non-stop to international acclaim, California's Florence Chadwick set out thoroughly greased from Dover, but after giving up a mile off the French coast, was beached by irate French customs officials, who took a dim view of her arrival or departure without a passport...
John Lord O'Brian, eminent Washington lawyer and last year's Godkin Lecturer, spoke on "The Value of Constitutionalism Today." His description of a "consistent trend inimical to all previous concepts of freedom' 'received particular acclaim from members of the conference...
...wonder and admiration." Not so pro: John Warrack of the London Daily Telegraph found the same symphony played with "appalling force, shrieking with despair and spitting fury, unrelenting in its attack upon the nerves and battering malevolently at the ears. A shattered audience rose bravely at the end to acclaim the exhausted performers...
...advance publicity and hundreds of portrait posters pasted throughout Paris and the provinces, most Frenchmen thought they knew who Billy was. The fact that few precisely understood his religious role or the meaning of his evangelistic crusade did not prevent them from according him a hysterical, slightly disoriented acclaim that surprised no ons more than the handsome evangelist...