Word: acclaimed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...antagonism spread to other officers and then throughout the army. Eventually, after Deniken had suffered military reverses, he was obliged to flee to Constantinople, and the army chose Baron Wrangel as its leader by acclaim...
...Acclaim TRUE STORY...
...always been the prerogative of the historian to present facts as they are known and to interpret them as his opinions and affiliations dictate. The English give to the Iron Duke the credit for Waterloo, the Germans acclaim Bluecher, and the French maintain that the battle was not won, that it was only lost. However much written history displeases a nation that considers itself aggrieved, active measures at suppression are rarely taken...
...such thing as a "star." For him opera at its best must be the synchronization of all the arts-orchestral, vocal, dramatic, scenic, decorative. On such a basis, he trained the Eastman players, brought them last spring to Manhattan as the Rochester American Opera Company, won the acclaim of the critics and, at the end of a week's run, was turning customers away. Shortly after, Rosing and a handful of his artists left the Eastman School, went into business for themselves as the American Opera Company, sponsored by an improvised American Society for Opera in English...
That the Harvard Dramatic Club is all these is fully demonstrated by the fact that only once in its history, in the case of "Brown of Harvard," has the Club produced a play which has previously appeared on an American stage. The acclaim of such critics at H. T. Parker and Philip Hale, the attendance at performances of such New York producers as Guthrie McClintic and Kenneth MacGowan, and the subsequent production of three Dramatic Club plays on Broadway are convincing evidence that the Dramatic Club does have some influence on the American stage. But those who should take most...