Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great canal will carry most of the Jordan-bound water to thirsty lands in the famous Plain of Esdraelon, and along the Mediterranean coast. The rest will irrigate the narrow, hot Jordan valley. But the Jordan itself will not go wholly dry, as it did when Joshua commanded the Israelites in the attack on unfortunate Jericho...
...city of Munich, a few days after the Reichstag Fire, six grave men held a meeting. They were the owners of, and chief contributors to, Germany's famous political-satirical magazine-the weekly Simplicissimus, whose biting, brilliant cartoons had ridiculed human stupidity since 1896. Now, the owners of ' Simpl" had met to find an answer to the gravest question human stupidity had ever put to them: "What shall we do when here, too, the Nazis take over?" Simplicissimus' founder, stalwart Thomas Theodor Heine, put the reply calmly: "One simply has to go into exile-pauper fashion...
...European Intellectual is the witty, intelligent story of his life-a story whose capacity for hard sense and an all too rare humor gives it a distinct place in refugee literature. As befits the outlook of an editor of satire, it contains no awed descriptions of intimate meetings with famous people; as an intellectual confession it confesses nothing but disrespect for overintellectualized confessions...
Nizaemon was in his 50s when Japan's top actor chose him as leading lady. This honor earned him the right at last to use his family's famous stage name. He was at the height of his fame a decade later when he took up with the shapely, silk-skinned movie standin, Toshiko, and made her his mistress. Nizaemon's adoring public could bear up under that. But when the Great Lover married his hussy and began uxoriously washing diapers and doing kitchen chores to please her, his prestige began to wane. Only his relatives...
...trio of Wakefield, Mullin and McCosky. and a well-muscled youngster named Hoot Evers* would make Detroit's outfield. (But Evers himself slipped this week, fractured his ankle, will be out for about eight weeks.) Dick Sisler, who hits the ball farther but not as often as his famous father, was trying to catch the Cardinals' Ray Sanders off first base. But the rookies expected to shine brightest were two boys with the same name, but different ways of spelling it: stumpy Grady ("Hoss") Hatton of the Cincinnati Reds and screwball Joe Hatten of the Brooklyn Dodgers...