Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Linda Darnell, who in six years of Hollywood fame has played many svelte sophisticates (Summer Storm, Daytime Wife), finally reached 21. Hearing that the Hays office had been killing her pin-up pictures, she remarked: "That's one difference being 21 makes. I don't believe they've paid attention to me before...
...grass is Zoysia matrella (Manila grass), an oriental variety with which U.S. horticulturists began to experiment five years ago. Park Superintendent Leo Goss of Louisville has covered four acres of Seneca Park with Zoysia, spread its fame among U.S. greenskeepers. Propagated from runners* instead of seed, Zoysia spreads quickly, crowds out even crab grass. It has already been planted in a number of Southern airfields and country clubs...
...Dewey had been well-known to the U.S. for seven years. His fame as the fearless young prosecutor was secure: millions had read of him as the very model of the modern District Attorney marshaling the forces of right against the hordes of evil. This year they learned more of the details of his rapid success story, from small-town editor's son to governor of the biggest state...
...fame spread outside the state, and by the 1924 Democratic Convention he had begun his great losing battle for the White House. Franklin Roosevelt put his name in nomination for President, and gave him the nickname that stuck for the rest of his life-"The Happy Warrior." It was not Al Smith's year. He was a Catholic and a Wet, and the Southerners and the Drys were against him. But by 1928 a Democratic boom for Al Smith swept the country. When the convention met at Houston, Tex., the opposition forces of 1924 had swung behind...
...1920s, his somber little critical masterpieces-The Ordeal of Mark Twain, The Pilgrimage of Henry James, America's Coming of Age-won him a measure of fame, a solid standing, a powerful influence with his contemporaries. But they left him profoundly dissatisfied with his own work and increasingly unhappy about it. In the mid-'20s his health and nerves broke down, and he spent the next four years in hospitals, a victim of the melancholy that had gripped and paralyzed so many American writers before...