Word: famed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reputation. He had just returned from a pleasure trip in the "north woods" where he had been shooting bears, deer, rabbits. He was holding a press reception to announce that he was going South for the winter. The Capone interview commanded large headlines. Mr. Capone's fame rests upon the fact that whenever- as so often happens-a Chicago thoroughfare is raked & riddled with machine-gun fire, Chicagoans take it for granted that Mr. Capone or his men have driven in again from their suburban headquarters at Cicero, Ill., to shoot down some rival gangster who has overstepped...
...Herr Quidde?" roared the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, and answered: "More than 30 years ago he gained cheap fame with the pamplet Caligula." Indeed, few Germans could recall, last week, the full title of that pamphlet: "Caligula: A Study of Caesarean Insanity." When published, it temporarily wrecked the good Professor's academic career?for in it he dared to suggest that Wilhelm II might fall a prey to that madness born of power which destroyed the reason of the Roman Emperor Caligula (12-41). Because Professor Quidde has continued all his life to militate against militarism and to propagate German peace...
...Keezer displayed the inevitable modesty of the great when asked about his rise to fame in Cambridge. Many years ago I considered going into medicine, but having a pathological mind I reached the plainclothes state before I knew it. Life is like that. For 41 years I have stuck to it though, beginning with the selling of shoe laces when eight years old. Ten years later I started a business of my own in Brattle Street, but have expanded rapidly. Once I was situated where Bond's Oyster Bar is on Bow Street, but 13 years ago I managed...
...voice of the September Freshman, like unto the one crying in the wilderness for fame and elusiveness, has been answered in many different ways. The needs of a Freshman, although miscel laneous, and met by himself with more satisfaction than by anyone else, have had the attention of upperclassmen at Harvard for several years. During that time the benefits of the system have fluctuated, its value rising and falling with the varying enthusiasm with which it has been carried...
...some bitter taste in the old crisp leaves that it was compelled to chew. For two days the secrets that had been written down so neatly upon paper, were translated into a soft and fragmentary tongue before they perished into smoke. Sir Basil Zaharoff, content to disregard a questionable fame that might have injured a more immediate potency, watched the conflagration with mild attention. He said: "I burned it because I have no reason for satisfying morbid public curiosity." After this arrogant comment and after the last page of the diary had be come a black and feathery tissue...