Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current U.S. scene was born 51 years ago, in the Montana mountain country. His future was shaped at birth: Spruille's father was William Braden, an engineer and promoter who followed the mining business from Montana to Chile, got rich in the process, and in his day was famous throughout the southern continent...
...field was society gossip. Igor's most famous predecessor, the late Maury Henry Biddle Paul, made $100,000 a year out of writing, in his own brand of pink perfume, about the half-world of Manhattan's cafe society for 60 U.S. papers. Igor Cassini hopes to do even better: he will concentrate on what he thinks is the International Smart Set; his ambition is worldwide syndication...
Rildergarde, long famous as a chanteuse, is currently holding fourth in Boston's "Raleigh Room...
Like most other soldiers, he knew terrible fear. He conquered it with prayer. During the fighting on Guam and Leyte he became famous among the hardbitten men of the 77th Division for his serene recklessness in the face of death. In the nerve-racking weeks of the Okinawa campaign, his fame grew...
...famous "bug bombs" (aerosol sprays) are excellent for a limited purpose. They should contain both DDT and pyrethrum (or some similar toxicant). The pyrethrum knocks flies and mosquitoes down quickly. The slower DDT keeps them from rising again. But bug bombs leave no appreciable residue. Bugs that arrive in the room after the air has cleared remain in good health...