Word: contest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Juliana wrote a three-act comedy called Bluebeard. It was a slightly Shavian version of the story, with Bluebeard depicted as a psychiatrist and golf enthusiast; Juliana herself played one of Bluebeard's wives. Another time, she tried her hand at poetry; her anonymous entry in a class contest was judged "song of the year." The refrain went...
Next day the Pacific National Exhibition held its bathing beauty contest in Vancouver. Of 14 entrants, only three were Roman Catholics. The winner: Brunette Margaret Brain, 17, a Protestant (Church of England) from Prince Rupert...
Arts Later. Campbell insists that his students also take academic courses (English, math, science, social studies), encourages them to try music and art. He was pleased as punch last year when an aircraft student won the state oratory contest. Knowing that factory doors don't open so wide to Negroes, Campbell drills his students on writing letters of application and taking job tests, makes them conscious of neatness, work habits and "personality." Best measure of his success: Dunbar now takes only the top 15% of its applicants...
Splash. In Weston, W.Va., a tobacco-spitting contest was won by Mrs. Garnet Pudder...
...Scene. But Gardiner's announcement made the convention a real contest. It gave hope to all candidates, including such dark horses as Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson and Brooke Claxton, Paul Martin, Clarence Decatur Howe, Douglas Abbott and Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power. Because of mechanical differences, Canadian conventions are not so easy to swing or control as U.S. conventions: the delegates vote individually by secret ballot; no candidate may rise to withdraw and publicly switch his support to another...