Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turn of the century his fame had spread and his Lying-in Hospital was endowed by Frederic Adrian Delano, uncle of President Roosevelt. From then on Dr. DeLee alternated between delivering socially prominent mothers at $2-3,000 a baby, poor mothers for nothing. Today Lying-in Hospital is a $2,000,000 institution connected with the University of Chicago. In its gleaming delivery rooms, 3,000 babies a year are born...
...five days per painting, all his life), and he ordered his life to that end. He never drank nor gambled, seldom lunged at his models. He suffered less mental anguish than many a stockbroker, never experienced creative paralysis. He got nearly everything he went after in his life: fame, social standing, money. A faithful husband and a good father, he poured on to canvas what he took care to moderate in his living; his paintings, which lack the deep grandeur of Velasquez and El Greco, are perhaps the most vigorously fleshly ever hung...
...Wyman Trophy is a permanent plaque with a small replica, which is automatically given to the swimmer or diver scoring the most points for the Crimson team. Former winners include: Roy S. Wallace, Jr. '35 in 1935; Charles G. Hutter, Jr. '38, of Olympic fame, in 1936, 1937, and 1938; Eric Cutler '40 in 1939 and 1940; and Franny Powers...
...untidy-looking crate, but she went to her end with a gallantry that insured her fame forever. She was known as "Old Buck" to British tars, officially listed as the H.M.S. Campbeltown. Not long ago, before her transfer to Britain, she had been the 1,090-ton U.S. destroyer Buchanan...
...First inkling he had that it was in print came a year later, when he saw it in a Columbus, Ohio music store. He wrote to his publisher. Came the reply: "Nelly Gray is sung on both sides of the Atlantic. We have made the money and you the fame. That balances the account." Songwriter Hanby hired a lawyer, who settled for $100, kept half as his commission...