Word: famous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...returned to Frankfort, but afterward completed his legal education at Strasburg. With his entering into Strasburg came the beginning of his intellectual wakening, for the sight of the great cathedral and his falling in love with the village pastor's daughter furnished him themes for many of his most famous lyrics. In 1775 he left for a short visit to a small principality where he became so intimate with the duke that their intimacy became the general topic of conversation. For ten years Goethe, as prime minister, fulfilled the duties of court, engaged in private theatricals and devoted himself...
...first article in the December Atlantic describes in a delightful manner one of the most famous of the old time taverns of Boston. The Bunch of Grapes was one of those old-fashioned inns for the entertainment of man and beast about which a thousand historical memories cluster, and whose kindly hospitality, "though lost to sense, still through memory stirs the heart and kindles the imagination...
During 1890 The Century Magazine (whose recent successes have included the famous "War Papers.' the Lincoln History and George Kennan's series n "Siberia and the Exile System") will publish the long looked for Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson, whose "Rip Van Winkle" has made his name a household word. No more interesting record of a life upon the stage could be laid before the public. Mr. Jefferson is the fourth in a generation of actors, and, with his wife and grandchildren, there are six generations of actors among the Jeffersons. His story of the early days of the American stage...
...novelettes, and short stories. "The Women of the French Salons" are to be described in a brilliant series of illustrated papers. The important discoveries made with the great Lick Telescope at San Francisco (the largest telescope in the world) and the latest explorations relating to prehistoric America (including the famous Serpent Mound, of Ohio) are to be chronicled in The Century...
Woodcock, the famous Dartmouth pitcher, has entered Brown...