Word: famous
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...tomb became a tourist attraction. John became famous. He used to spend his Sundays at the graveyard, watching folks gawking at his marble likenesses. His relatives quit bothering him. He used up all his money, retired to the Brown County poor farm and lived at public expense. Last week he died, aged 92. Those who attended the funeral said he looked satisfied...
Bell-Ringer. Whitehead began his teaching career 62 years ago as a mathematician at Cambridge. He and his famous pupil, Bertrand Russell, worked together for nine years on their Principia Mathematica, now on the St. John's list of the 100 Great Books, but strictly for specialists. Whitehead later became professor of mathematics at the University of London, quit (at 63) when faced with automatic retirement and came to the U.S. to start a new career on Harvard's philosophy faculty. He has written some 20 books on mathematics, science and philosophy (best-known: Science and the Modern...
Carnegie Hall (Morros-LeBaron; United Artists) probably contains more famous music per foot of film, interpreted by more famous musicians, than any other movie ever made. The chances are that it will gross millions. This does not mean, necessarily, that music lovers will love it. Nearly every number is the most over-familiar one that could have been chosen...
...McCloskey started out with such speed that she swallowed many of her lines; as she developed the part of Juno she caught some of the almost cruel indomitability with which she holds her rotting family together. She never approached, though, the real intensity which the role offers, her famous closing speech in particular falling below standard in what was evidently an attempt to avoid repetition of style...
...November 14, 1902, she appeared in the gallery where visitors came to "watch the animals eat"--and was immediately recognized with cheers and jeers from the floor below. She shouted, "Boys! Don't eat that infernal stuff, it's poison," and started down the stairs to sell her famous nickel-plated hatchets. The students quickly crowded around her, offering cigarettes and cigars which she struck to the floor with indignation. When the uproarious mob had swept her into Sanders Theatre, she attempted to speak, but shouts and singing drowned her out, and she finally abandoned Harvard to a life...