Word: famed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editorial mentioned by the Senator's secretary praised Senator Stephens for talking little; quoted Mark Twain's steamboat which could not whistle and paddle at the same time; mentioned that Demosthenes, Patrick Henry and Ingersoll had no fame as fighters. The editorial concluded...
Courtly but honest, as the traditional Irishman, Maj. James C. Fitzmaurice of transatlantic fame ventured the opinion last week that women are temperamentally unsuited for flying. Hastening to point out that there are exceptions to every rule, he remarked that "when she brings a ship into a field, a woman pilot seems to be possessed with the idea that she is about to come down on the Sahara Desert...
After having spent thirty-five days in New Hampton reformatory, where he was placed for writing an obscene poem published in the Daily Worker, David Gordon, a student at the University of Wisconsin, has been released. His comparison of the American business world with a house of ill-fame was certainly in poor taste; but few who know the circumstances would consider the young poet deserving of so harsh a punishment. He was born in Russia, and has been raised in sections of New York City where the tenets of communism sway the public mind and make the more spirited...
...Gallienne and Walter Hampden lead to Boston companies that have won wide and merited fame. In contrast to the frothy fare typical of so much of the stage, they have both chosen substantial material. Isben is no easy author to interpret, but Mr. Hampden has not stinted his labor, and represents Shakespeare with a Hamlet over whom cynical reviewers have grown enthusiastic...
Sadness, like fame, is fleeting. When the trans-Atlantic heroes reached Manhattan a city went mad with welcome. . . . Once again the wires hummed with consequences...