Word: acclaims
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Even such professional cynics as newsmen knew that no mere love of office or appetite for acclaim could drive a man to the punishment Willkie was taking daily -not the boos, but the grinding strain of the campaign. "A punch-drunk prophet," said one newshawk...
...belligerent countries of 1914-18 sustaining and idealizing a war which we now know to have been on both sides the most shameful exhibition of military imperialism in modern times. In Germany, professors were the first to proclaim the justice of the Kaiser's war, and to acclaim his invasion of Belgium and France. In England, professors made speeches, wrote articles and books, headed propaganda agencies, which painted the sordid European struggle as a Hl-like crusade to end war, to save civilization, and to make the world safe for democracy. In America, professors led the baying pack which drove...
...this show they studiously ignored advertising clients. Robert Riggs (Dole pineapple, Goodyear tires) exhibited his circus lithographs, which have steadily won critical acclaim in the past six years. A surrealist painting was hung by famed French Poster Artist A. M. Cassandre (Dubonnet). Instead of seminudes in bathtubs for Cannon towels, Gladys Rockmore Davis sent a demure little girl writing. Peter Helck, who turns out ads for Champion spark plugs, Goodyear tires, refreshed his soul with an antiquated locomotive in a railroad yard. Leon Karp, layout man for N. W. Aver, painted his son in rougher textures than ad clients generally...
...sditors is of small consequence compared to the daily happenings of a follower of the "Old Master." When my 30-month -old son clamors for his adjustment, I know he builton a solid foundation. The eagerness with which my tiny patients await the applicaton of his discovery, is greater acclaim than acquiescence from so-called medical science. Imagien a child clamoring for a hyperdermic "shot" from allopathic potion peddlers. TEDFORD DENNIS, D.C. Madrid, Iowa
Sixty-three-year-old Elkan finally settled in a modest red brick house in London, went on with his sculpture. Commissions were few and small. But little by little, he won British critical acclaim...