Word: contest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnson is "Uncle Bumps," a writer of stories for children who loathes the little pests as wholeheartedly as he likes .liquor and girls. June Allyson, a somewhat prim (but non-bespectacled) Vermont schoolteacher, wins a contest to illustrate his forthcoming book, The Bashful Bull. When she meets Uncle Bumps, whom she has always idolized, he gets her drunk-a state which Miss Allyson communicates with more charm and taste than most movie stars of either sex. When she sobers, she is outraged. It is necessary to pretend that the genius is driven to drink by a delinquent son (Butch Jenkins...
...recklessly through enormous horn-rimmed glasses, Marilyn Buferd, Miss America of 1946. They were face to face with an international incident. The Stockholms-Tidningen had just demanded the elimination of platinum blonde Miss Sweden on two grounds: 1) she had once been elected Miss China in a Stockholm cabaret contest, and 2) she wasn't a miss; she was a missus, married to an Italian. Rebutted Miss Sweden: "I was elected Miss China in 1941 at Stockholm's biggest vaudeville house, which is named 'China.' " But the judges disqualified Miss Sweden anyway-on count...
...some 25 percent of its effective strength would have seemed extremely unlikely one month ago in the face of an overwhelming American public opinion. But that is precisely what GOP House leaders have achieved, pressed into irresponsibility by their own backward outlook and, more significantly, by the formal contest for control of their Party which looms so close at hand. If the dominant Martin-Taber-Halleck Knutson cabal successfully "guts," to use Senator Vandenberg's expression of yesterday, the ERP endeavor, it will amount to national tragedy. If this is heaped upon the deed of a mangled reciprocal trade agreements...
...last year, Bunk wrote a letter about Roy Fisher for a contest sponsored by the Quiz Kids to pick "The Best Teacher of 1947." When the judges picked Mr. Fisher for only a third prize ($500), Bunk was hopping mad. This year he put up an argument with another letter: "I don't think Mr. Fisher is second to any teacher. I think he's the best. I feel pounds lighter when I enter his door." Last week, a Quiz-Kid committee of college professors admitted that Bunk was right by naming Roy Fisher "The Best Teacher...
...Although the death throes lasted for years. The official death certificate had already been issued by the New York State Athletic Commission when it ruled that wrestling was an exhibition rather than a contest...