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Word: famed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus reads one verse of a famed German gloat-hymn, but the fame of the Emden will not live in gloat-verse alone. So decreed President Paul von Hindenburg of Germany, last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Junk-Emden | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...idiom and with an inflection peculiar to the Bronx, N. Y., where she grew up and where her father ran a neighborhood store. In vaudeville she was one of those fat, supernaturally stupid girls who serve up joke cues to dapper comedians. Later, in Broadway nightclubs, her fame spread as a singer of semi-salacious, contemporary folk songs. She sang with Paul Ash's orchestra, later in the musical comedy Good Boy. Young men in eastern colleges have voted for her as their favorite actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Anne Morrow, with her mother and sister Elizabeth, last week headed home towards Englewood, N. J., from Mexico. At Houston, Tex., she resisted newsmen with her fiance's phrase: "I have nothing to say." Said Sister Elizabeth: "One of the things which helped Col. Lindbergh to his fame was his silence on personal affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...groom enter bed. Erotic exaltation of all company. The shadows grow darker. The whole company is immobile as if transfixed. Father of bride sings the final magnificently eloquent phrase, interrupted at irregular intervals by bell-like crashes from the orchestra." Friend or foe, none can deny Stravinsky's fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Les Noces | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Coombs is captain of the visiting team and has been its star hurler and nephew of the famous Jack Coombs of Philadelphia Athletics fame and so far gives every indication of following in his uncle's footsteps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1932 BASEBALL TEAM MEETS STRONG EXETER NINE TODAY | 5/4/1929 | See Source »

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