Word: famed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
YOUR DEFINITION OF THE MAN OF THE YEAR IS "THE MAN WHO HAD THE BIGGEST RISE TO FAME DURING THE YEAR AND WHO MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE CHANGED THE NEWS FOR BETTER OR WORSE." I ... SUGGEST SECRETARY OF STATE JAMES F. BYRNES. BY SPEARHEADING A FIRM AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE DIPLOMATIC GATHERINGS OF 1946 HE HAS UNQUESTIONABLY CHANGED WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN GLOBAL BAD NEWS DEFINITELY FOR THE BETTER...
...bourgeois, he was at heart a snob and a social climber who faked a claim to nobility. To keep up with the post-Napoleonic Joneses, Balzac sat at his table for twelve hours a day, years on end, turning out alternately tripe and masterpieces. Before he was 40 his fame was such that publishers bought and paid for his novels before they were written. But earlier, says Zweig, "there was no literary iniquity that he could not stomach. He was a harlot serving simultaneously two or three literary pimps...
...Actually John Fletcher (of Beaumont & Fletcher fame) and perhaps Philip Massinger (A New Way to Pay Old Debts) had as great a hand in Henry VIII as Shakespeare...
Died. Gabriel Wells, 85, onetime penniless Hungarian immigrant who won fame & fortune as bibliophile and bibliopole; in Manhattan. Most famous transaction: purchase of an imperfect Gutenberg Bible, which he sold book by book (Genesis brought $5,100) and leaf by leaf ($150-$500 a page...
...fine job in the lead role, performing it with the mixture of pathos and humor without which there would have been no play. Robert Lubehansky is perfect as his surfaced Alter Ego, as are several others in lesser roles. Among the females, both Kaye Horan of fig leaf fame and Jane Bergwall are interesting, although Miss Horan would probably be more effective if she did not attempt quite so obviously to add to her natural bodily gifts...