Word: heyday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disillusioned by the failure of his greatest enterprise, the Grosses Schauspielhaus, the national German theatre which housed five thousand, and essayed epic dramas on a grand scale, Reinhardt stopped producing for several years. His American venture is viewed by the critics as an attempt to "come back." In the heyday of his fame he was all things...
This condition is particularly prevalent in winter, the heyday of the warm fire and the good book. Then although major sports are least active the minors in general are the poorest in material. Athletics may be valuable, athletics may be almost necessary, but they hold little interest in January...
...they write themselves out more quickly. A few years ago I had the pleasure of conducting over Harvard a well known English author who, to my astonishment, told me that it was the first university of which he had ever been inside the walls. He was then in the heyday of prominence; but I notice already that he appears less often in print and his name is less currently on the lips. The unschooled mind is likely to lack staying power. It can be clever, brilliant, up like a rocket; but if it doesn't always come down like...