Word: famed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past few years, biographies have enjoyed a steadily increasing vogue, and with this trend has sprung up a class of biographers depending for their fame and popularity more on their ability to write entertainingly than on their qualifications, if any, as scholars and historians. Their main purpose has been to entertain, and since the general public is more interested in people that are human, perhaps even a bit naughty, this new school of semi-historical writers has led to the exposing of one shibboleth aften another, the rendering of innumerable veils, the puncturing of bubbles, and the over-turning...
...conduct along the high roads of Italy are graphically recounted in the current slang of the period. Their activities are all charmingly debased and come under the main heads of alcoholic, criminal and amourous, and include almost constant indulgence in those pursuits which secured for two cities of biblical fame a bad reputation and a pyrotechnical destruction...
Three suggestions were made: 1) To build an extension behind the north transept of the Abbey on the St. Margaret Church side. 2) To build a cloistered extension behind Henry VII's chapel, adjoining Charter House. 3) To erect an independent hall of fame. A site suggested is that of the Westminster Hospital, opposite the Abbey...
...intelligent minority should be more prolific. Most novel, indisputable, disastrous, are the statistics which they produce upon those who achieve irritating and ephemeral success during their collegiate careers, and who, when they graduate, are reluctant to duplicate their superiorities in offspring. Even chorus girls and stage ladies perpetuate their fame less frequently than they should. This and many other facts make The Builders an arrestingly entertaining as well as a significant comment on contemporary conditions...
...among publishers to coax Author Asquith toward further indiscretions of the printed word. Her present volume is full of good sense: "Most men and women Eat, Drink, and Sleep too much to keep their minds active or their, bodies healthy." If such iconoclasms on Carelessness, Taste, Fashion, Human Nature, Fame. Character, Politics, had been devised by Mary Smith they would have remained unpublished. Devised by Margot Asquith, illustrated by anecdotes about her friends in the British peerage, their didactic importance is increased; they exhibit entertainingly the workings of a well-known mind...