Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crook" by James R. Crowell, "pulp" fictionist, in which were recounted the exploits of Mr. Woodward, the sometime Senator Musgrave, also known as "Big Bill Hawley" and "The Old Boy Himself." Last week the Old Boy, 71, sued Mr. Crowell. He asked the New Jersey Supreme Court to award him $15,000. He claimed he had made an agreement whereby he was to receive one-third of the price paid for his memoirs; Mr. Crowell was to get two-thirds for rewriting them and arranging their publication. Said he: "I asked for an accounting, and I did not get even...
Meanwhile, Laborer Hanna had on his mind the matter of his daughter Helen, 15. Because she was alleged to have told her little sister to steal a purse last July, she had become award of the court. Her case came up early last month. Like her mother, she was examined by Carolyn Friendly. After that, Laborer Hanna became angry, terrified, excited. And Portland (through the sedate Portland Oregonian} learned of the Hanna Case for the first time. For Teacher Friendly had written of Helen Hanna: "Recommendation: Should be sterilized. She is not at all placeable and if left...
...Bargain (First National) is billed as a cinematic version of "Philip Barry's Prize Play." The award won by the play You and I on which The Bargain was based was but a minor trophy, from the Harvard "workshop" of Professor George Pierce Baker, in 1922. The Bargain sparkles intermittently with the witty insanity which is Author Barry's chief contribution to letters and the screen. But it is plainly the product of a sophomore playwright. Its major originality is to show a father who has enriched himself in business, painfully disappointed when his son offers to give...
Last week Lady Houston expressed her disappointment in another magnanimous gesture. Said she: "I challenge the air men of the whole world to another race to be called the Houston Trophy race. Be sides giving the trophy I shall award to the winner...
...University of California in 1917; when the War broke out he went soldiering, stayed in the Army till 1920. Then he worked on newspapers in Atlanta, New Orleans. Four years ago he quit work to write. His second published story, Child of God, won the O. Henry Memorial Award...