Word: famed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter how the creators of cultured men feel about it, the fact remains that very few students meet those ancient authors of whose distant fame they have heard since their Gore Hall period, until the melancholy days of Divisionals are near. So the Vagabond was pleasantly surprised to learn that Sophocles' tragedy Electra was being presented at Eliot Hall, Jamaica Plain. There he found the ancient drama excellently played against a background of temple and poplars, with a cast directed by a former member of the 47 Workshop. With the altruistic spirit typical of better-class Vagabonds, he sought information...
...Jefferson was through being president he retired to his country place in Virginia and took up his pen to continue influencing the country's history. President Grant stove off the fatal hand of cancer until his famous Memoirs were completed. Literary work alone would be enough to insure the fame of Theodore Roosevelt's name. Tomorrow morning Calvin Coolidge carries the tradition into Mr. Hearst's Cosmopolitan Magazine...
...Many a famed U. S. educator has sat in the office which Dr. Cooper now occupies. The first was Henry Barnard whose fame in his native Connecticut equals that of Horace Mann in Massachusetts. Other onetime Education Commissioners are Dr. Elmer Brown, Chancellor of New York University; Dr. Philander Priestly Claxton, now Superintendent of Schools in Tulsa, Okla...
Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, last week, and for the first time since he came to fame, made public tribute to his wife. It was 14 years and a month after they were married. He, in Antarctica, had just flown over and claimed for the U. S. unknown land in the Pacific Quadrant* of the continent, between his base on Ross Sea and Sir George Hubert Wilkins' base on Weddell Sea. The region is south of the long-known Alexandra Mountains and the Byrd-discovered Rockefeller mountains, a great stretch of rumpled iciness...
...Federal Council of Churches consists of representatives of 28 Protestant denominations. It has a constituency of about 20,000,000 members. Bishop McConnell's fame as a religious leader rests largely upon his battles for better labor conditions in Pittsburgh mills and mines. His thoughts, utterances run in liberal channels. Recently he posed the ticklish question: "Is not this tendency to deify Jesus more heathen than Christian?" Bishop McConnell seemed to think it was. Dr. Grant, shocked, responded with another question : "If that is Bishop McConnell's position, then the thing that concerns me as a Presbyterian minister...