Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lighted Sparkler. The Pennsylvania Railroad's grey-haired President Martin W. Clement, an arch-Republican, asked Democratic bigwigs to a garden party at the fashionable Merion Cricket Club. But the party seemed oddly like a waxworks exhibition. There, bowing and smiling and real as life, were scores of famous men who had already been politically embalmed...
Lobstermen and fishermen of Provincetown, Mass, agreed last week that 17-year-old Frank Cabral Jr. would be a famous man until he died. The boy and his father headed seaward at 5 one morning in a 30-ft. powerboat with two dories in tow. They came back with a breathless tale...
Under regulations drawn up in 1570 by the school's patron, Sir Nicholas Bacon, enrollment was limited to 12 underprivileged boys who had "learned their accidence without books and can wright indifferently." The rule excluded Sir Nicholas' famous son, young Francis Bacon. Parents were required to furnish their boys with a bow and three arrows and if their "child shall prove unapt for learning . . . ye shall take him away; and again, if he prove apt, then that ye shall suffer him to remain till he be completely learned...
Almost all her life, Amparo Iturbi has played second piano to her famous brother Jose. If they weren't rippling away together on the Mozart concerto for two pianos, Jose was usually on the podium, conducting while she pounded out the solo part. One of Jose's favorite cracks: "I am my sister's worst enemy...
...gloved hands which applaud the half-drunken King). The film is built with a fine sense of form and line, and some of the editing worked out very well. Hamlet's big scene with Ophelia (Get thee to a nunnery) comes immediately before, rather than after, his most famous soliloquy (To be, or not to be). Thanks to this transposition, and to the manner of playing, the possibility of Ophelia's madness is planted early, its causes are enriched, and Hamlet soars to his soliloquy with acute, immediate reasons for contemplating suicide...