Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inviting smile on her lips), but this time dressed in white silk. Confronted with the second picture, the Duke was temporarily appeased; but something apparently went wrong, he found out the truth and promptly poisoned his unfaithful wife. Goya lived to be 82, and the two pictures became world-famous as La Maja Vestida (Gay Lady Clothed) and La Maja Desnuda (Gay Lady Nude...
When Mo brought back the news of Chang's interest in history, Chiang was delighted. He asked Mo to find a famous scholar who would instruct the Young Marshal and recommend more books. Mo complied. Now Chang is reading The Modern History of China, History of Indo-China, History of Manchuria, and (as a reminder that even the most vigorous dynasties must have an end) The Sad Tales of the End of the Ming Dynasty...
...Famous in the past for its unbiased and uninfluenced analyses of some 50 courses--those open to Freshmen regularly or with the instructor's permission--, the Guide has reflected student opinion in terms frank enough to prod coasting faculty members out of their complacency...
J.A.L. speaks kindly of "Rodeo," saying patronizingly that "this simple, attractive story" stood up well beside works of greater fame. If "Rodeo" is not one of the most famous ballets presented in recent years by any ballet company, what is it? Does J.A.L. realize that "Rodeo" by Agnes de Mille was the force behind ballet in all musical comedies? When the Theater Guild saw the Ballet Russe's production, they hired de Mille to do the choreography for "Oklahoma!" and even J.A.L. surely doesn't need diagrams drawn from here...
...that time Dr. Douglas Hyde ("make way there, yous, keep back, keep back, give him space there") was a famous, fine man. Playwright Sean O'Casey, now 65, remembers that Dublin gawked and said wasn't Hyde the grandest champion the glorious Irish language had ever known, although to be sure he hardly spoke a word of it himself. Indeed, a famous man, a "sure sage, with almost all the priests applaudin' "; and him a Protestant, too ("make way, there-silence-"). And standing nearby was Jim Connolly, "the renowned Socialist leadher," author of Socialism Made Easy...