Word: famed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That he foresaw such fame on the fated day when he gave his name to the Eighteenth amendment is doubtful. He was after all, no more responsible for its enactment than many millions who had voted for it, and much less responsible that those who had led in the agitation; and, in proposing the measure, he was only echoing the sentiments of his constituents. These considerations, however, avail nothing with those who, having found liquor in the Mecca of the dry, feel that to telephone Mr. Volstead would be the cream of the jest. He must by now have tested...
...Literary fame came to Mrs. Sullivan in 1902 with the publication by Harper and Brothers of her novel, "Out of the West", which told the story of the struggle of the grange against the railroads. For 20 years she was a feature writer for Chicago newspapers. Her activities in Chicago awakened her desire for writing of a more creative nature. She came to Cambridge where she studied in the 47 Workshop during the last year of the administration of Professor G. P. Baker '87. "The Strongest Man", her first play, was produced at Agassiz House in 1925, and was published...
...village 1868, small Charles Curtis, aged 8, stole bravely past the enemy's pickets at nightfall and travelled 60 miles to Topeka for help. Be that as it may, he lived in Topeka from then on, a small boy with such a passion for horses that he gained fame as a jockey on Midwestern tracks long before he finished high school...
...imported spark plugs and sold them to the then small and experimenting U. S. motor manufacturers. Twenty years ago he began a small factory in Boston to make them himself. William Crapo Durant, planning to organize General Motors, built a factory with him at Flint, Mich., and the fame of Albert Champion, racer, faded behind the greater fame of his initials which trademarked the spark plugs he made...
This struggle also saw the entrance into fame of P. D. Haughton '99, later coach of the Crimson camp in its greatest glory. Minds was regarded as the mightiest kicker of the time, but Haughton consistently outkicked him throughout the game, and the comparative closeness of the score was due in no small measure to Haughton's powerful...