Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This exaggeration is apparent, for example, in the coda of the first movement, where a gratuitous quarter-rest is added just before the orchestra bounces, fortissimo, into a repetition of the characteristic rhythmical figure. It becomes distortion when the famous theme of the choral movement enters pianissimo where Beethoven has explicitly stated piano...
When depression struck as he had predicted, he proposed that nations "spend their way back to prosperity," and made an early convert of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Taking as his basis the formula p=mv/t* he then drew the famous Keynesian corollaries: deficit financing to put money in the hands of the unemployed, managed currency, reconstruction of the social system so that more high-velocity money gets into the hands of the poor, who spend it, less low-velocity money into the hands of the rich, who save...
Fans' eyebrows shot up at the Yankees' new publicity methods. Newspaper advertising for ball games is traditionally confined to austere announcements of time, place and contestants. Up came the Yankees with ads in the best soap-opera style. Sample: "Can Washington's famous 'knucklebal' pitchers stop what experts call the sluggingest team in the League? Or will Di Maggio, Keller & Co. make mincemeat of the Senators' pitching staff? Come out to the ball game...
...name she took became the most famous byline of any newspaperwoman's. Last week, when "Dorothy Dix" turned 50, her creator was a lively 75. Both were still going strong, Miss Dix as an oracle in 216 papers, Mrs. Gilmer as a grande dame of New Orleans with an annual income of more than $75,000. Her column held a record for longevity, beating out the Katzenjammer Kids by a year and Beatrice Fairfax...
...district, next door to a home for wayward girls and across the street from the General Theological Seminary, Croly assembled a motley crew of insurrectionists. Into his journal went some of the best of Walter Lippmann, Francis Hackett, Elinor Wylie, Rebecca West, Robert Morss Lovett, Edmund Wilson. At his famous staff luncheons, everyone talked in low tones-in' deference to Croly's own shy near-whisper. In the eyes of New Republicans, Croly was a scholar journalist, and Oswald Garrison Villard, his opposite number on the Nation, a mere hotheaded warhorse. They were proud of the difference...