Word: famed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Deems Taylor resigned as music critic of the New York World to compose the first really successful U. S. opera, The King's Henchman, he lifted his keen, stocky self from a platform of newspaper authority to a pinnacle of international fame. Ordinarily, the fortunates who are able to take such a stride, seldom retrace their steps. But, according to Mr. Taylor, "newspaper work is like drink. The only way for some to quit is to have left it alone in the first place." So he accepted the position of editor of Musical America, and introduced his regime last...
...been chilled in reading that one of the artists (whose real name is Charles Sikes) felt it advantageous for professional reasons to be designated more lyrically as Mr. Baromeo. Perhaps they recalled that Edward Johnson, celebrated tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, felt obliged to be Eduardo Giovanni until fame came...
...surface in one of his first models, with a boy to steer while he himself manned the pumps. When craft failed to reappear, divers had rescued Inventor Holland and the boy from the river bottom. The imperfect submarine had been hoisted up, dragged ashore, abandoned. Inventor Holland's late fame had obscured the failure of his first experiments. The Passaic River had changed its course, piling silt upon the abandoned hulk which, when salvaged, will now rise to the importance of a major exhibit at the Passaic County Historical Society...
Madame Pompadour. Dorothy Gish flickered to fame as a saucy heroine of the common people. Now, snatched from her natural background, she is seen in 18th Century regalia exercising shop girlish charms to enslave King Louis XV of France. As might have been predicted by pessimists, the Mme. Pompadour of the infant industry is no resourceful siren but a sweet, good lass in love with a poor artist. It was Fate which pushed her into a palace...
According to the trend of golf rulings, an amateur player ceases to be an amateur when he accepts a position which is connected, even indirectly, with his skill or fame as a golfer. Francis Ouimet was barred from amateur tournaments of the U. S. Golf Association in 1916 when he became a partner in a sporting goods store. George Von Elm lost his standing in 1922 for practically the same reason. Both were later reinstated...