Word: fame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebrate its second birthday, Pins and Needles rigged up virtually a new revue. Only three of the original numbers remain. The new show cannot, from the fame of the old one, provide the same kind of exciting surprise. But on its merits it is a much better show. It is better put together, better paced, better performed. It has four or five downright bad numbers, but no longer any heavy and humorless ones, and it has ceased to be amateurish while remaining fresh...
...make no claim to fame...
Although handicapped by a threadbare plot, Akim Tamiroff and John Howard, with their superb acting, are responsible for making "Disputed Passage" a good picture. With Tamiroff as the surgeon of fame and Howard as the struggling, idealistic medical student, the action centers around the byplay between these two characters which gives the picture just the poignant boost it needs...
...biggest political job was given to a man with no political but plenty of military fame, a 37-year-old child of iron named Ettore Muti. Signor Muti marched with Poet-Hero Gabriele D'Annunzio when he seized Fiume in 1919, by 1922 had let enough blood in the province of Ravenna so that it was ready to be healed by Fascism; dropped bombs on Ethiopia and Spain-until, today, his is known as the most decorated chest in medal-rich Italy. He is handsome, slim-waisted, athletic, merciless. If Starace was a panther, he is a tiger...
Harvard's fame has sprung from two sources--the great professors who have resided here and the teachers who have taught the numerous leaders it has sent into the world. There is no apparent connection between these two elements; students are painfully aware that "famous names" have only the most indirect influence upon them. Formerly Harvard's fame accrued more from the first source than from the second. Now, in its fourth century, its renown is maintained by the leaders in every walk of life who have been educated here...