Word: award
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father's public career, his mother's piety, his uncle Horace's Taft School, Yale, the A. E. F. and Cincinnati's Charter movement. At Yale (Class of 1918) he was football tackle, basketball captain, Phi Beta Kappa, winner of the Francis Gordon Brown award for "good scholarship and high manhood." While his classmates were busy getting into officers' training camps, Taft enlisted as a buck private in the Army, got married before sailing for France. Returning a first lieutenant, he finished a Yale law course in 1921, stayed on through football season...
...frayed tassel from Hollywood's lunatic fringe, it includes performances by Warren William as a ferociously whimsical detective, Bette Davis, last year's Academy Award winner, in the trifling role of a jewel thief, and a platinum blonde newcomer named Marie Wilson as a squeaky secretary. Typical shot: the detective rebuking a baby-faced gunman for wearing a beret...
...best rural correspondent it can find each year, Crowell Publishing Co.'s Country Home awards a money prize, a trip to Manhattan. Last year the Country Home award went to Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey for her writings in the Forsyth (Mo.) Taney County Republican (TIME, July 29, 1935). Last fortnight Crowell announced that this year's $200 prize had fallen to Mrs. Susan Frawley Eisele, whose farm home is nine miles from Blue Earth, Minn., in recognition of her column, With a Penny Pencil, which runs once a week in the Fairmont (Minn.) Sentinel...
...years before. It was Publisher Howard who junked the morning and Sunday Worlds, announced to a skeptical city that the independent, crusading, liberal traditions of Joseph Pulitzer's great paper had suffered not death but "rebirth." Not until 1933, when the World-Telegram won a Pulitzer distinguished service award for a variety of effective campaigns, did New York City take Publisher Howard at his word. Manhattan publishers are notoriously close-mouthed about the balance sheets of their papers. Best opinion is that all New York newspapers cost way too much to run, none pays a respectable return...
...annual award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the best performance by an actor went to (1 Charles Laughton-Mutiny on the Bounty, 2 Charles Chaplin-Modern Times, 3 Leslie Howard-Petrified Forest, 4 Jean Hersholt - The Country Doctor, S Victor McLaglen-The Informer...