Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War I Britain sought support from both Jews and Arabs. To the Jews the famous Balfour Declaration promised "a national home" in Palestine, which Zionists insist means a Jewish State. Arabs were promised self-rule in the Middle East, which the Arabs insist must include Palestine (where there are now a million Arabs, 550,000 Jews). Today stronger Arab nationalism and a sharply intensified Zionism can find no common ground...
...with one of the decade's most lurid yarns: the story of how three young Cuban women were stripped and searched by Spanish police aboard a U.S. steamship in Havana harbor. Remington did the revealing illustration. It was a scoop until the rival Pulitzer press made it equally famous as a hoax...
...producer or director or writer or someone was not satisfied with Boston's justly famous articulation and had to substitute his own peculiar brand of midwestern accent is a mystery, as is the intent of one of the same gentlemen in allowing a girl from Boston in any decade to sway, skirtless, on a Bowery stage. Cambridge, at least, is not, and was never, like this. Durante is a mystery of sorts, too-but only in that it's a wonder he remains as funny as he does. As a matter of fact, the more you think about Durante...
...Artisans at the famous Lomonosov Porcelain Works in Leningrad carried Soviet iconography to new heights with an eight-foot vase glorifying Stalin...
...known as the Midwest's biggest mural, over 100 feet long, and a pride of the WPA Art Project when it was painted eight years ago. It was meant to portray 100 years of Iowa history. It was painted in the neat, stiff manner which Grant Wood made famous, and just to make its immortality a sure bet, it was done in the favorite medium of Renaissance art, egg tempera...