Word: renowned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Courtesy to a lady of renown...
...young. From college she migrated to Greenwich Village. The contrast between Washington Square and her home town of Rockland, Me., was great; but it did not disconcert her. She soon became a legend. Her poetry was widely read, her charms widely heralded. She was a poet of renown and even more brilliant as a personality. Tiring soon, however, of the Bohemian life of the Village she went to Europe with her mother. There she stayed, as a part of the American colony in Paris; then, for a time, in England. This Spring she again sought America. When...
...that profanity is no sign of intelligence. How true that is! Those who argue for "strong language" show either their ignorance of or heedlessness to many things. Most certainly they do not know or do not reverence the Bible. They do not perceive that the last way to gain renown is by using bad language. In the third place the "strong language" been do not realize how detrimental is the effect of their unseemly mode of speech not only upon their moral standards but also upon their power to express themselves clearly and forcefully. They also do not appreciate...
Harvard is but repeating at a distance of 800 years the experience of Abelard. In his day, when there was neither publicity nor advertising, and renown grew by conversation, Abelard, the "professor par excellence" of his time, attracted such a vast number of students that "the inns were not sufficient to contain them." While great philosophers of antiquity had only a very small number of pupils, Abelard had, according to Compayre, five thousand in his school in Paris. And when he retired at one time with but one pupil to a "desert place," students finding his retreat followed him. "Cities...
...academicians have been sent as a delegation to represent the French Academy at the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Moliere. Mr. Chevrillion has gained wide renown for his works on English literature and has also written many books on travel. Mr. Donnay is one of the best known living French dramatists, most of his works dealing with the theme of love...