Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote other famous hymns, besides those you mention. Among these were . . . Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken and Pleasant Are Thy Courts Above...
...delight the spirit of a true Irishman the way a pack of lean hounds will be leppin' in full cry with pink-coated riders on fine, gallant horses just on the tails of them. Farmer Larry Costello is a true Irishman, but when the Galway Blazers, the most famous hunt in all Ireland, bore down on his property, what did Larry do? He beat on buckets to drive the fox into the gorse and thwart the chase entirely...
...Fancy Free. Disney's famous fauna, plus Edgar Bergen and Dinah Shore, put on a show that ranges from bad to brilliant and is generally easy to like (TIME...
...years younger than his brother Cleo, popular offensive spark of the 1942 team and captain of the 1946 eleven. Their father, also Cleo O'Donnell, was head coach for two decades and later athletic director at Holy Cross. Prior to this, he was a famous Everett High School mentor from 1912 to 1918 and coached Purdue for two seasons...
...ignoscenti, however, a word or two of explanation may still be necessary. Let it be said, then, that Samuel Goldwyn and Friends have taken a little but justly-famous Thurber short story from a "New Yorker" of a few years back about mild, henpecked Walter Mitty and his daydreams of grandeur--and upon it they have based a full-sized picture, complete with Goldwyn Girls. The original was simple, poignant, and pathetically amusing. The greatly expanded, glamorized, seat-song-studded cinema product is not; as indeed it could never be. But is this kind of comparison a fair one? Does...