Word: renown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buckingham Palace from January to June her granddaughter, (TIME, May 3) the Princess Elizabeth (aged, at present, nearly four months.) During that period their royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of York, (parents of Elizabeth, "the baby who is always smiling") will journey to Australia on the cruiser Renown and there inaugurate the new Australian Capital, Canberra...
...your periodical is far above the mental standard of that well known person, "the average American." Your witticisms, your skillful use of the English language, the brilliant literary style of your periodical?which as a news publication will probably attain in years to come as great a renown as Addison's "Spectator"?seem to be sadly misunderstood by a large proportion of your readers. Also, and what is more to be deplored, this attitude on the part of an uncultured list of subscribers seems to have reacted on you to the point of lowering the literary standard...
Dubuque, Ia., is a metropolis which has long been held up to derision by popular sophists. Because the erratic spelling and dubious pronunciation of the name make it seem to suggest provinciality, the smart Alecs of city journalism refer to ituque came, at a single bound, to long-merited renown...
...early times a member, and for a while the President, of the Dante Society of Cambridge. The articles which he published from time to time dealt for the most part with elusive problems of language or literature, and always with the same intrepid precision. These publications won him high renown abroad and, by reflection, at home. A youthful product, 'A Short German Grammar...
...ability to leer in a naughty fashion will often earn a witless fellow a reputation as a wag; luck in getting his books suppressed will bring an author to renown even though no one has ever read them. Shrewd Douglas H. Cooke, President of the Leslie-Judge Co., may not therefore have been altogether stunned when he was told last week that his funny-paper, Judge, was barred from the mails...