Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decade, Southern politicians trembled at his disapproval. His 1928 denunciations of Al Smith helped to turn the Solid South toward Herbert Hoover. When his own church accused him of dabbling in Wall Street bucket shops, he wept publicly and pleaded for Christian forgiveness. The church forgave him but his fame began to fade. His first wife, mother of his nine children, died in 1928. In 1930, in London, after a trip through the Holy Land, he married his secretary, Mrs. Helen McCallum...
...many heroes last week. Some of them would never grow older than their framed photographs back home on the mantel, or the piano. Many of them were still alive: they jolted on east and north out of France, bewhiskered and dirty, hardly aware of fame, but sighing with fatigue. Some were in hospitals. A few were whole and at home...
...Last week the Georgia Press Association hung a portrait of Miss Edna's late husband, who died in 1939, in the Hall of Fame of the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady School of Journalism...
...theatrical agent found them both, and things began to happen fast. Curley was not just a worm; he could do a turn. Whenever Stinky munched Yes, Sir, That's My Baby on his mouth organ, Curley got up on his points and danced. The agent soon made his fame global. He was the toast of feature writers, the darling of lepidopterists. He was photographed embracing Mayor LaGuardia's finger, strolling up a model's leg. LIFE ran him on its cover, with the simple caption Curley. Bill Robinson introduced the Curley Capers. Grover Whalen...
Pennsylvania-born Jimmy Stewart had a conservative education, blossomed after college into unconservative fame as a nice-looking, homey cinema hero. His longtime hobby was aviation. When he entered the Army in March 1941 (one of the first screenmen to do so), he was already a licensed commercial pilot...