Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elliott, Of Course. First off there was tall, heavy-lidded, 41-year-old Howard Hughes, who very nearly killed himself recently in his own experimental plane, and who, as producer of The Outlaw, made the bust of Jane Russell famous from coast to coast. Then there was a sleek and portly Hughes pressagent and talent scout named Johnny Meyer. Meyer, it appeared, had been a great spender of Hughes's money. And whom had he entertained? None other than Interior Secretary Julius A. ("Cap") Krug, for one. According to the amazingly detailed Meyer expense sheets which the committee...
...representatives, one died before he got to Panama, the other arrived too late. But a pattern was set for future meetings of American republics. Bolívar had other disappointments. Venezuela joined Ecuador and Colombia in withdrawing from the federated Great Colombia he had built. His famous general, Antonio José Sucre, was assassinated. He wrote in despair: "Those who worked for South American freedom have plowed...
Gardeners, Miners, Vintners. In the hot July sun, people tend the little vegetable gardens from which other people steal by night, and gardeners and thieves both act from the same motive-to store food against the awful winter ahead. In Bavaria, a famous movie actor who played leading roles in Nazi anti-Semitic films, is cleared by a denazification board, and before another Spruchkammer in the U.S. zone appears a former high official of the late Ribbentrop's Foreign Office, likewise to walk away a free...
...Westminster Abbey has become a famous war poem...
From that day on, Walter Greaves and his brother Harry followed Whistler wherever he went. Strutting, dandyish Whistler was glad to have them follow. The brothers affected bis flat, wide-brimmed black hat and yellow tie. They even signed his invitations with meticulous copies of the famous Whistler signature: a butterfly with a sting in its tail. Sitting on either side of their hero at a life class, they seldom looked at the model; their eyes were fixed on the Master's drawing. Sometimes Whistler would roll a cigaret and smoke it; the Greaves brothers solemnly copied him, puff...