Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indian Army in 1840 as a 16-year-old ensign. He soldiered for his Queen through the next 39 years. In the Sepoy Mutiny he led a desperate charge against rebel artillery at Sirpura, lost his left arm and won the cherished Victoria Cross. Later campaigns earned him fame, knighthood, full general's rank, honorable retirement...
...read scarcely more than in 1926. But his admirers, who have numbered most of the discriminating writers and readers since Doughty's day, have kept his patient fame alive, expect that some day he will be recognized as one of the great wielders of English words...
...Steeg, of Sources of Supply "distinction" fame, is ill at Fort Banks station hospital with a "strep" infection. Here's to you, Al--get well soon and give the bug a "distinctive" beating...
...world of sports the softball team of the "Invinsible Seventh" platoon almost coasted with Lefty Don Stahl to the hall of fame when he struck out 16 men of the fifth platoon, allowing only one hit. Unbeaten in Company C the Seventh is now playing the best of Company B. We are rooting for the Seventh...
...also a milestone: his last picture for anybody. He died last spring (TIME, April 12), age 50, of a heart attack, on a Hollywood golf course. Often regarded as Eric von Stroheim's most formidable rival as a fondler of monocles, German-born Veidt first came to fame in Robert Wiene's bizarre fantasy, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Other weirdies, like The Hands of Mr. Orlac, followed. Women fainted, men screamed, children chortled when they were shown. By 1926, when Veidt went to Hollywood, audiences had got hold of themselves pretty well, but his adroit villainy...