Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fame crept in on the catfooted pair yesterday, offering them an aerial post with Ward Beam's World Champion Daredevils, opening soon in Ohio...
Gavin's dissertation was titled "This Bright Red Flower: A Critical Discussion of the Stories of Katherine Mansfield." Woodring wrote on "William and Mary Howitt: An Essay on Fame," while Brown discussed "Law in the India of Sir William Jones: A Starting Point for the English Historical School of Jurisprudence...
...Atlanta, Ga. Bible conference, Dr. Campbell Morgan declared that the tango was a reversion to the ape. A New York doctor announced a new disease, the tango foot. In Paris, the Argentine ambassador added his censure. "The tango," said he, "is a dance peculiar to the houses of ill fame in Buenos Aires and is never cultivated at respectable gatherings...
...metallic tempo-one, two, three, pause-and continued to be danced by automatons whose torsos remained in expressionless rapture while their legs swept nimbly through the corte (cross step) and corrida (promenade). Actor Rudolph Valentino showed moviegoers how to do it when he tangoed his way to fame in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse...
Long before he won his fame, Wedgwood had been turning out cream-colored pottery by hand, and calling it simply "Useful Ware" (sometimes he had it decorated by a Widow Warburton who lived in Hot Lane). It was just about as practical and clean-lined as anything anyone has accomplished since...