Word: fame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...islands' marble benches. On summer nights, romantic couples often had to wait their turn for bench space. Nearby stood statues of 19th Century Mexican heroes. When placed there in the '90s, they represented the most notable sons of the Mexican states, but time gradually rubbed out their fame...
Cummings' fame rests on such books as Eimi and The Enormous Room and volumes of poetry written with the freakish punctuation and typography that have become his trademark. His sunny, splashy little portraits and paintings of apple trees in blossom and luminous, leggy nudes are all done with slapdash delight; they have none of the sharpness or strangeness that make his books memorable, infuriating or a bore. Compared with his writings, Cummings' art seems as soft and wholesome as fresh butter...
...chemist just a second longer than it takes he audience to see the possibilities of his wonderful compound. When the idea dawns, he skips out on his college sweeheart (Jean Peters), packs a couple of bottles of his tricky formula, and rushes off to St. Louis to make his fame & fortune on the baseball diamond...
Barn 41, Belmont. Since 1940, Calumet Farm has been a front runner in the U.S. racing stakes. Whirlaway, Pensive, Twilight Tear and Armed were the horses that first carried Calumet's devil red and blue to fame & fortune. In the past three years, Calumet's Citation and Coaltown, Fervent and Faultless, Pot o' Luck, Ponder, Bewitch and Wistful have run away from all competition. Other horsemen may not be happy about it, but the public is. Fans know that Calumet is not a betting stable, and that its horses are always sharp when they go to the post...
...many ways Ralph Waldo Emerson is the most satisfying of American writers. The fame of other great New Englanders seems to vary with literary revivals, new discoveries and new editions, but neither changes in literary fashions nor new research have reduced Emerson's stature in the slightest; he grows more impressive, in his unassuming serenity, as more is known about him. He is as eloquent as Herman Melville but without Melville's frequent posturing and bombast, as civilized as Henry James but without James's mannerisms, as imaginative as Poe but without Poe's melodrama...