Word: nobeled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator and Passion. The Postwar brought Yeats honors: membership in the first Senate of the Irish Free State; and the Nobel Prize. As a Senator Yeats shunned the politterateurs for the men of practical affairs. He was proud of two bullet holes in his window which were a by-product of civil war; he turned an argument over divorce laws into the speech of hi. life, a "passionate protest ... on behalf of that small Protestant band which had so often proved itself the chivalry of Ireland." He was beginning to write, meanwhile, those "endeavors in cold passion" (the "Tower" period...
...such youngster is beknighted Nobel Peace Prizewinner Sir Norman Angell. At 68 Sir Norman has written 32 books, sat in the British Parliament, worked five years in the U.S. as a ranch hand. The British Empire's most noted apologist in America, Sir Norman's latest views on the post-war world have caused the Book-of-the-Month Club to select Let the People Know as its February choice along with Tregaskis' Guadalcanal Diary...
...Graham Lewis (Cosmetiqueen "Elizabeth Arden"); and Prince Michael Evlanoff, late of the late "international set"; she for the second time; in Manhattan. She is in her 50s, he fortyish. A '41 refugee from France, for 20 years he had been an agent for Swedish-Russian Petroleum King Emanuel Nobel (nephew of Prize-Founder Alfred...
...Year idea caught on with a bang and, somewhat surprised, we decided to make it an annual event. The choice is in no way an accolade or a Nobel Prize for doing good. Nor is it a moral judgment. (Al Capone came close to being runner-up in riotous, bootleg 1928). The two criteria for the choice are always these: Who had the biggest rise in fame; and who did most to change the news for better (like Stalin this year) or for worse (like Stalin in 1939, when his flop to Hitler's side unleashed this worldwide...
...physical chemistry he gave form and content for a hundred years" (Wilhelm Ostwald, outstanding Leipzig chemist, Nobel Prizewinner...