Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME [Sept. 5] failed to credit famous Artist Will Shuster for our fiesta's Zozobra. [He] has made it annually for a quarter-century...
...Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin appointed Trevelyan to Acton's old Cambridge professorship. By that time, Trevelyan was married (to the daughter of Mrs. Humphry Ward, novelist niece of Matthew Arnold), had became famous as a historian himself. Thirteen years later, Winston Churchill made him Master of Trinity College. There he reigns, the "Grand Old Man" of Trinity Lodge...
...with cigar-chewing Murray as M.C.) is informal to the point of sloppiness, as though the only alternative to a boiled shirt were an egg-stained vest. And as nothing is too vulgar for Blackouts, so nothing is too venerable-one of its borrowed skits helped make Fannie Brice famous...
...spent with lepers, but in one way or another, most of it has been spent teaching. In time, as founder of the Allahabad Agricultural Institute, Sam Higginbottom became famous. Maharajas called him in for advice; the Viceroy invited him to tea; both high- and low-caste Indians became his students. Last week, in a rambling autobiography-Sam Higginbottom, Farmer (Scribner; $3)-the 74-year-old missionary tells his story...
...thee glad . . .") and coined the label "Ivory Soap." In 1890, Kodak launched one of the first relentlessly successful slogans: "You press the button-we do the rest." As other manufacturers ventured into advertising's strange new land, a blaze of new slogans followed: "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous," "Pink Pills for Pale People," "Do You Wear Pants?" Slogans temporarily gave way to jingles, alarming forerunners of the singing commercial. Illustrations (the manufacturer's face, Indians, prominent public figures, including President James A. Garfield) were used wildly and sometimes weirdly to catch the customer's eye. Then...