Word: famed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being oil scandals lawyer (see p. 12); Elihu Root by continuing as a patriarch of the bar; Chauncey Depew by becoming a nonagenarian. Others become somewhat obscure. James Duval Phelan is an opulent San Francisco booster & developer. Magnus Johnson still farms the Minnesota dirt whence sprouted his short fame. Dr. Irwin France of Maryland travels and keeps up his interest in Guernsey cows. Truman Handy Newberry of Michigan keeps up his club memberships, helps direct banks, goes yachting. John Sharp Williams prunes the gardenias and oversees the cotton planting at his old Mississippi home, infrequently sallying forth to signalize some...
Albert Bacon Fall, once an ambitious Kentucky boy, founder of "Fall's Business College for Young Men" at Nashville, Tenn., who reached wealth, fame and a place in the Harding cabinet via law, mining, cattle dealing, lumber trading and being Senator from New Mexico, still carried his broad-brimmed black hat, still chewed unlighted cigars, but bore his 66 years tiredly. His grey mustache drooped, his grey suit hung loosely, he slouched silent in his chair...
Some janitors are exceptions. They spend the long days of their undifficult existence revolving and maturing hot thoughts of fame. One of them a fortnight ago (TIME, Oct. 10) crawled to the front pages of U. S. newssheets by calling himself "organizer and president of the World League of Cities," by inviting all kinds of potentates to a convention in Boston where he lives. Another, who inhabited a Brooklyn cellar while he wrote poetry and played a stringed instrument, is on trial for butchering an old lady. Last week a third janitor came to a measure of fame...
...permits himself in private have led to a contrary impression. His writing career began in his native town, on the Baltimore Sun, to the editorial staff of which he now belongs. With Mr. Nathan he rose to repute as one of the editors of the Smart Set, and to fame as the editor of the American Mercury which the two started in 1923. Two years ago he toured, in eccentric fashion, part...
...first two of these claims to fame obviously little need be said; as to the latter, the Vagabond would like to make a few remarks. For the Vagabond has had an opportunity to judge the matter pragmatically (keep this point in mind), he has asked, "Is he?" and the reply has echoed far. "He isn't." No one who wandered across the Anderson Bridge on Saturday and found his way into the Stadium would accuse those assembled of indifference...