Word: famed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with other's eyes. To earn his daily bread, he was compelled to write what would bring him immediate returns. Thus his literary activity was determined by his financial condition and his first writings were fugitive magazine articles which won for him the greater part of his fame...
Soon there came more political troubles, and Addison in the height of his fame in 1716, married a rich countess, probably unhappily. Later he lost the friendship of Steele, and before his death in 1719 was entirely estranged from him. Mr. Black closed his lecture by a short and interesting sketch of the characters...
...reported at San Francisco that Professor Barnard of Lick Observatory, who recently gained world-wide fame by discovering Jupiter's fifth moon, has received a call from Chicago University and will accept...
...close of his life was full of misfortunes to which the course of political events added many. He died a worn out man at fifty-six. In considering him as a man, full of craftiness and intrigue, with the love of fame as his superior passion, we must keep in mind his terrible physical deformities, which made his whole life one of pain, as well as the character of the age in which he lived...
...number of men, mostly from the lower classes, were noticed to disregard utterly this pledge and the mass meeting was called to condemn their dishonesty. A number of students spoke on the question and the general sentiment seemed to be that men who were capable of degrading the fame of their alma mater to such a degree had no right to remain in college. A committee was selected whose duty it is to call all such men up before it and condemn them. The committee decided that the highest punishment, which would be inflicted would consist in forcing the guilty...