Word: famed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...claim membership among the lost generation. Hemingway, with satire as much in mind as anything, painted the scene not as it was but as the youthful sinners would like to believe it was. And now thousands of his admirers are striving manfully to be worthy to the fame with which he has bequeathed them...
...complying with the first and deliberately disobeying the second of these two injunctions for good behavior, Adolph Joseph Sabath, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Chicago, has come to command a portion of fame and respect far larger than that delivered to the average man who is neither judge nor peacemaker. During his 20 years upon the bench it is claimed that he has tried more divorce suits than any other magistrate and effected more marital reconciliations. Last week, as usual, Judge Sabath's courtroom teemed with opportunities for making peace. On one day alone he found temporary remedies...
...Senate, to a great portion of respect and honor. Clarence Darrow every year more saddened by wrongs as untouchable as stars, could do not better than go on defending queer men, among them, two pale, sadistic murderers and a country school teacher. Big Bill Haywood took advantage of his fame. He organized the I. W. W. "We are the roughneck gang," he said. When the War came he refused to fight...
...Famed Joseph Jefferson who grew up to be an actor, achieved great fame and had a son whose name...
...were other directors of his $153,000,000 company which supplies without competition all the electric light and power that Brooklyn, a district of 2,250,000 people uses. Brooklyn Edison directors were agreed with Chairman Brady and his very important co-director John D. Ryan (of Anaconda Copper fame) that their company should sell out to the $740,000,000 Consolidated Gas Co., New York City, through an exchange of stock...