Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remained there, except for a few short trips, ever since. Before World War II, if he was not living quietly with his wife in a native-style house at Amman, capital of Trans-Jordan, he was roaming the desert with Bedouins, learning their habits and earning their esteem...
...floruit was in one of the great age of Harvard. The names of his colleagues were trumpet blats calling to the banquet of literature and philosophy: James, Royce, and Palmer, Santayana, Baker, Briggs, Perry. Copeland, like Santayana, happily is still with us, as friends remember with effectionate esteem. But such galaxies of eminence are not to be picked up in a forenoon's shopping tour of the academic counters, and neither are they fostered by professional purges...
...only purpose in writing this is to give Brunies the recognition he so rightly deserves, as this musician is held in high esteem by critics, musicians and hot jazz collectors the world over...
...Only the urgent pleas of King Christian X, whom everybody loves, have hitherto prevented full-blast sabotage. The cowed Government of huge, old, Moses-bearded Premier Thorvald Stauning, who has been in office for twelve years, has sunk low in popular esteem...
...proud shoulders of Kitty Foyle Producer David Hempstead. Walter Brennan of the removable teeth got his third gold statue as the best supporting male (Judge Bean, in The Westerner). To stuttering, slue-footed James Stewart, who stood low in this year's forecasts but high in esteem for an unrewarded 1939 job in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Alfred Lunt handed the prize for 1940's best male acting (The Philadelphia Story). As the wassail ended. Banquet Chief John LeRoy Johnston was last seen frantically bellowing into the microphone for winners "and Miss Lunt and Mr. Fontanne...