Word: fame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often the Freshmen who arrive at Harvard, view the fame and importance of the University in an impersonal light, attributing them to the work of a highly paid personnel. They do not realize that Harvard has achieved its present position through the work and cooperation of every member of the University, students and officers alike; they fail to see that for the next four years the progress of the College will be to some extent dependent on them...
...School of Law. He resigned in 1933 to be elected the first Democratic mayor of Louisville in 16 years. In Louisville, he staged a financial and governmental reorganization, became president of the Kentucky Municipal League and a director of the U. S. Conference of Mayors, but won his greatest fame when Louisville was swamped by flood last spring. Mayor Miller then evacuated a large part of the population, summoned aid from far & wide, fed refugees, kept the city machinery functioning...
...defeated in the all-island swimming championship of 1926. His father, Felix Locher, onetime resident of Tahiti, is now a Los Angeles insurance broker. Hall is a second cousin by marriage to Hurricane's coauthor, James Norman Hall. His well-distributed 190-lb. frame enabled him to win fame as a track star and ski-jumper when he left Tahiti to go to school at Neuchatel, Switzerland. He had been acting in a few plays in the down-at-heel Hollywood Playhouse when Director John Ford, a neighbor, noticing his build and good-looks, suggested he be tested...
...locked in the mop closet, or the downstairs maid tried to touch the family for three dollars to pay her bookmaker. Papa Pemberton (Etienne Girardot) might have received the Nobel Prize for breaking down the atom if Junior had not objected that the award would overshadow his fame as a child prodigy...
Once upon a time Lotte Lehmann had her fortune told. The fortune teller's prediction tickled her (says she) more than the praise and plaudits which operatic fame have since brought her. The seer told her "that a new door was slowly opening for me, a door leading to great success in another branch of art." At ten the door opened a crack when Mme Lehmann sold poems to Berlin's Der Tag. In that struggling season she was still being told that she had "no voice." With occasional articles, a book of memoirs, she managed to keep...