Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freedom for Schoolmen. Coffin's fame spread to England and Scotland, where he was often a preacher. He declined a call to Edinburgh's Free St. George's Church, Scotland's leading parish. He received twelve honorary degrees (five Doctorates of Divinity), including one from the Jewish Theological Seminary, one from the Faculté Libre de Théologie Protestante, Paris...
...major engagements, done more damage and raised more general hell than any other ship in the Pacific. Precisely because she has been so deadly successful, her country knows almost nothing about her. Less fortunate ships struck their blows gallantly, paid with their lives and eventually had their hour of fame when their stories were told...
...Mexico City last week movie houses were packed by a wretched distortion of the life of Agustin Lara. Called Noches de Ronda ("Nights of Revelry"), it was a pale, sentimental story of a café musician's rise to radio fame. The face in the film was not the pinched, knife-scarred face of Lara, Mexico's most popular songwriter. The producers had taken one look at that and decided to give the role to the handsome singer Ramón Armengod. But what drew throngs to the box office was Lara's fantastic personal reputation...
...Reginald Bathurst Birch, illustrator of Little Lord Fauntleroy. The courtly bon vivant of the '80s, half-blind and broke, had no complaints except against Fauntleroy. It was "about the worst thing that ever happened to me," he said. The lace-and-velvet wrapped little hero's fame had obscured everything else the artist had done. At present, he admitted, "you can say that I'm just a little hors de combat...
...slightly built, grey-haired, with thin drooping cheeks, Baillie has a somewhat weary air, resembles an undersized, underfed St. Bernard dog. But as soon as he speaks in his crisp, incisive Highland voice, the listener is aware that he is a man of unassuming but confident mental powers. His fame, as the Duke said in his tribute, stems from his four-fold talents as "scholar, teacher, preacher and author." (Best-known books: Invitation to Pilgrimage; And the Life Everlasting...