Word: famed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born, and where he now raises prize cattle, rustics know Mr. Young as a tall, deliberate, loosely built man of 54 who was once a lazy plowboy.* Gaffers recall how his father had to borrow the $1,000 which helped Owen to an education, world potency, historic fame...
...child prodigy today can rival in fame young Yehudi Menuhin, 11-year-old violinist. A year ago he went East from California, astounded Manhattan with his masterly conception of the Beethoven concerto. Last week he went again, again played with the Philharmonic Orchestra, this time the Tschaikovsky concerto. But although now he plays on a full-sized fiddle and has a reputation which might well be the envy of many a full-sized fiddler, his perform ance last week suffered in comparison with the younger Yehudi's. As before, critics marked his amazing virtuosity, but many detected signs...
Partnerships. To Sir William Wiseman, 43; George W. Bovenizer, 49, and Lewis L. Strauss, 32, came partnerships in the great Manhattan banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Partner Wiseman rose to fame as Chief of the British Intelligence Service in the U. S. from 1916 to 1919. Partner Strauss was confidential secretary to President-Elect Hoover during the war. Partner Bovenizer, with Kuhn, Loeb since 1897, has been manager of the bond and syndicate departments...
That Hampden's Cyrano has become an institution in the U. S. theatre is due largely to the abilities of his art director, Claude Bragdon. Claude Bragdon's fame lies principally outside the theatre; largely in fact, it exists in the fourth dimension for it washe who translated Ouspensky's Tertium Organum and wrote, among other works, Four Dimensional Vistas. When Einstein came to the U. S., Bragdon was one of the first named as belonging to that hypothetical "ten" who understood the master's theory of relativity. Especially was Claude Bragdon interested in mathematical metaphysics...
...patroness of the new art "discovers" her; it seems that Sadie's angular primitive skull is "the focus of the geometry." Cubism is at its height; the Negro fad starts its blatant vogue with a nude of Black Sadie. From popular artists' model, Sadie proceeds to nightclub fame ending abruptly with a row, murder, discreet fadeaway. On the whole she is glad to be shet of no 'count white folks that treat her as an equal, but the whole gamut of her staccato experience, pertly recorded, actually affects...