Word: fame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas S. McCaleb, instructor 19 Geographical exploration and formerly of trafile control fame, has switched his field this time to catch bookthieves instead of speeders...
...Protestant would have anything to fear; 3) although an Irish nationalist, he is a "nonpolitical figure" and just the kind of non-controversial head of state that a country intermittently rocked by violent political quarrels needs. Son of a rector of County Roscommon, Dr. Hyde's academic fame rests on his work for the revival of the Irish language as president of the Gaelic League, on his collections of Celtic folklore and on his authorship of Twisting of the Rope, first Gaelic play produced at Dublin's famed Abbey Theater...
...Hudson D. Walker Gallery were about 50 prints, beginning with a set of illustrations for Hauptmann's Weavers which first brought Kathe Kollwitz fame, in 1897, as a proletarian artist. At the Arista Gallery were etchings and lithographs from this and later periods. At the Buchholz Gallery were recent drawings by the artist, including Mother & Two Children (see cut), and four pieces of sculpture done since 1932, when Artist Kollwitz produced her first strong work in stone for a Belgian cemetery, where her youngest son was buried after his death in the German offensive...
...conflict of old and new social forces, it poses a more strictly moral theme: the evil consequences of parents trying to realize their unfulfilled ambitions in their sons. The worse example of deluded fatherhood is William Essex (narrator of the story), who rises from the Manchester slums to fame as a novelist, determines that his only son, Oliver, shall have all the advantages he missed. His friend, Dermot O'Riorden, dedicates his son Rory to the cause of Irish revolution, which he laid aside when he became a famous interior decorator. Conveniently for the story, both sons (who also...
Even the circus will be represented at the Smoker in the person of two dwarfs and a giant, but the chances of seeing the Terror, billed as the largest ape ever kept in captivity, are remote. Frank Buck, of "Bring them back alive" fame, may supplement this performance...