Word: famed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when they are scheduled to unveil a bronze Andrew Jackson in Statuary Hall at the U. S. Capitol, Andrew Jackson IV wants to find Albert Marble Jackson, his brother. The latter vanished in 1925 after assisting Andrew Jackson IV in unveiling a Jackson statue in the Hall of Fame, Manhattan...
...original Andrew Jackson was their great-granduncle and great-grand-foster-father. Children of his own Andrew Jackson had none. But he adopted and named Andrew Jackson Jr. his dead wife's sister's son, descendant of Inventor Eli Whitney of cotton gin fame. The present Andrew Jackson, a Los Angeles realtor, and the missing Albert Marble Jackson, were brought up at "The Hermitage," historic Jackson plantation near Nashville, Tenn. Before vanishing, reputedly by steamer to Europe, Albert Marble Jackson is thought to have disposed of valuable Jacksoniana from "The Hermitage...
Arthur Honegger in 1920 was not recognized as a master of contemporary music. In 1924, however, he was as claimed. Nevertheless, Honegger's return to public esteem was not an act of devotion or even premeditation, for his "King David" which brought him his fame was written to order...
...this day nine Norwegians out of ten still emotionally prefer Bjornson to Ibsen, while recognizing with gratitude that the fame of Ibsen has "put Norway on the map," for ignorant millions would otherwise scarcely differentiate it from Denmark or Sweden. Perhaps the most familiar tradition of Ibsen is that of an old man who would sit for hours at a bay window of the Grand Cafe in Oslo (then Christiania) staring with unseeing eyes at the bodies of his countrymen but piercing their souls with uncanny insight. His reward is that the theatre-goers of today, who constitute...
David Binney Putnam (1 4-year-old explorer, 6 ft. ½ in. tall, author of David Goes Voyaging, etc., Hotchkiss schoolboy) and his father, Publisher George Palmer Putnam, offered U. S. Boy Scouts four months of fun and an avenue to fame. They will select two youths, between the ages of 13½ and 15, to go with them to Africa to observe animals with Hunter-Photographer & Mrs. Martin Johnson (Simba). The trip will begin on June 15, end in October. The two Boy Scouts will write a book about their doings, be paid royalties...