Word: fame
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Diverting Frankenstein. Damon Runyon's Broadway stories were highly readable and amusing; to a large following, they stood for incisive reporting of U.S. big-city life. But, as he himself seemed to know, Runyon had created a kind of literary Frankenstein: the formula that brought him fame and money also limited his growth as a writer...
...with no purpose in life except to catch King Devil, he was ashamed to face his family and his neighbors. To his astonishment they were overwhelmed with pride and admiration-"the onliest real fine things we've ever had"-and the dogs brought him a kind of backwoods fame and prosperity. Bootleggers treated him with respect, the AAA lent him fertilizer for his fields, a dog-loving storekeeper advanced him credit, and the whole countryside conspired to keep his secret when he did a little moonshining to get the family through the winter...
Frisch resigned as coach for the New York Giants (where he had won fame in the '20s as a hard-hitting, base-stealing second baseman) to become manager of the tottering Chicago Cubs. He replaced another Dutchman, Charlie Grimm, who was nudged upstairs into a vice president's chair. Since winning a wartime pennant under Grimm, the Cubs had become tame as kittens. They finished in the National League cellar last year for the first time in 23 years and were still struggling to stay out of last place last week. That Frisch could lift them...
...more & more other colleges were using plans like it. Rollins itself prospered. Hamilton Holt was able to raise enough money to build 25 new Spanish-style buildings and quintuple the meager endowment (now over $1,250,000). He boosted enrollment from 240 to 625, built a Walk of Fame lined with stones bearing the names of poets and statesmen...
...midnight-blue Night Music and Ray Green's jiggy, jazzy, folk-flavored Three Pieces for a Concert were true Americana. Most impressive was Bales's own Episodes from a Lincoln Ballet, a dramatic descriptive work which carried Lincoln through his "Youth and Dreams," to "The Presidency" and "Fame Everlasting...