Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last season, the house was 97% sold out; almost half a million dollars had poured in from radio, rented concessions (e.g., Sherry's famous bar), and a new recording arrangement with Columbia Records. But even so, said the directors, the Met's rising cost of living had plunged it $220,000 into...
...turned to Far Eastern mysticism. He became fascinated with a fork-bearded Russian theosophist named Nicholas Roerich, and later, when he became Secretary of Commerce, sent Roerich to Outer Mongolia to do research in grasses. Roerich was the "Guru" (Spiritual Leader) to whom the now famous "Dear Guru" letters, full of mystical fiddle-faddle, were written. Wallace has never either admitted or denied authorship of the letters...
...years before World War I, fierce-eyed, mustachioed "Professor" Ivy Baldwin was as famous as many a king. He was a tiny man (5 ft. 3 in., 112 Ibs.), but he had a fine sense of balance and a vast contempt for death. He toured the world making balloon ascensions and parachute jumps. He dived into nets from incredible heights. He walked high wires with the ease and insouciance...
...moods and feuds were famous and fearful. Once an admirer of F.D.R., she turned on him with the spiteful and scurrilous tag, "He lied us into war." In the same way, she turned on her once-loved son-in-law, Drew Pearson, and savagely attacked him in print...
...What gives these sentiments interest is that behind them is Jeffers' one great, violent insight into the nature of things-an insight that has kept him going as a poet for 20 years, has formed his famous style, and made him a faintly theatrical, gloom-wrapped figure in U.S. poetry. He describes this insight as "a certain philosophical attitude, which might be called Inhumanism, a shifting of emphasis and significance from man to not-man; the rejection of human solipsism and recognition of the transhuman magnificence...