Word: famed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt whether there is a single lady or gentlewoman among your readers who was not deeply offended by the article in your last issue concerning, "women who measure off the scale of happiness in units of jewels, cash and fame...
Washington, where visiting shows are thoroughly appreciated, was entertained last week by a one-man act which gained fame on European circuits last summer and on the Southern circuit last month...
...these reforms save money for the taxpayers of Illinois. And all of them--since the business of reforming State governments had made such little headway be 1917 that any reform was notable and Lowden's reforms were sensational--brought Lowden fame. It is not strange that the Republican party, then preparing to break the eight years hold of the Democrats in Washington, should have begun to talk of Lowden. Nor it it strange that Lowden's own friends in Illinois should have thought the times auspicious. On November 7, 1919, an enthusiastic convention of Republican editors of Illinois meeting...
...name of that golden trumpet by which the archangel will at some unknown date announce the dissolution of all things-Gabriel's horn. Gabriel Manufacturing Co. prospered, expanded, invented a snubber to tame the jouncings of springs on automobiles. Gabriel snubbers rivalled Gabriel's horn in fame. Since 1925 when Gabriel Manufacturing was listed on the New York Stock Exchange "Snubber" has been cried in stock brokers' customers' rooms, when the ticker recorded a transaction in Gabriel stock...
Thus almost lost to fame is the most exciting and excitable figure that ever trod the soil of North America. Frémont was, characteristically enough, born unconventionally in 1813. His mother was the wife of gouty Major John Pryor, but his father was a dashing French emigré (Charles Frémon) who ran off with his mother. Reared in the best Charleston, S. C., society, Frémont was a quick Latin and Greek scholar. People thought he might make a teacher or a preacher, until Joel R. Poinsett (manifest destiny man, Secretary of War, giver...