Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...triumphantly carried a captured broom from the fray. At week's end, the street cleaners scornfully rejected an offer of a 10,000-lire bonus, held out for 15,000, Palmiro Togliatti appeared in the Chamber of Deputies. He wore his suavest air and his famous blue, double-breasted serge suit. Said he piously: "Parliament is the center of democratic life and it is bound to a concept of tolerance between men who fight for their own ideas...
...Unnoticed by the Times two years ago was the death of an even more famous cat and mother: Sally, a sleek, green-eyed Persian owned by pawky Sunday Express Columnist Nat Gubbins. The proud mother of 126 kittens produced at the rate of 2½ kittens a throw, Sally always treated Gubbins' ribald remarks about her fertility with cold disdain. During the war she conducted a long and frosty correspondence in her master's columns with a Russian cat who advocated scientific speedups in kitten production. At the ripe age of 14, Sally died giving birth...
...only one who wasn't fretting last week was modest Dorothy Dobson. She had always dreamed of being a famous singer-and this was fame of a sort. She only wished her three notes had been better. "They were," said she, "the tiniest bit sharp...
Died. Charles Henry Ingersoll, 82, co-founder of the Ingersoll watch company ("the watch that made the dollar famous"); from injuries when he was hit by an automobile; in West Orange, NJ. Ingersoll and his brother Robert turned out their first dollar watch in 1892, made about 100 million of them before they went bankrupt and their assets were sold to the Waterbury Clock...
...adept at portraying the creatures of the decayed South: Gowan Stevens, a gentleman of the old school, who learned to drink in a Virginia college but not to overcome his cowardice; Flem Snopes, who would not hesitate to stamp on every living creature to satisfy his greed; and the famous Popeye, a ghastly symbol of machine-age amorality, with the "vicious depthless quality of stamped tin." Against this background, the violent elements in Faulkner's novels-rape, castration, lynching, bestiality-are symbols of moral confusion and social decay...