Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Student authors in the University will have an opportunity to compete for several monetary prizes as the result of a series of cash prizes amounting to $125, which are offered by "The Writer" to the authors of the best prose and verse contributions. The purpose of the contest is to prove the versatility of the readers of the magazine, a quality so much in demand in current magazines and newspapers...
Three prizes of $25 are offered to the writer of the best prose manuscript or poem submitted during the months of January, February, and March. The remaining $50 will be awarded as a final prize at the end of the contest, April 1, to the author who has shown a general excellence in both verse and prose writing...
...four daughters and two sons of Stanley Baldwin, one daughter, one son are famed. Miss Betty Baldwin, a hearty bouncing young woman, frequently electioneers for Conservative M. P.'s. Her brother Oliver Baldwin is, per contra, the family political throwback, a Socialist-intellectual. Hilarious was the contest for the Parliamentary seat from Smethwick (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926), wherein Betty Baldwin electioneered for the Conservative candidate and Oliver Baldwin successfully championed the candidacy of a brother throwback-Socialist, Mr. Oswald Mosley, son-in-law of that late pinnacle of Conservatism, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston...
...transportation companies. Twenty years ago such a general war took place. First class fares between New York and Liverpool fell to $22.00 a person-but for a very short time. With trans-Atlantic travel as vast as it is now the companies are too discreet to initiate such a contest...
...Doran ($2). After Charles Augustus Lindbergh's airplane had carried him safely to Paris, there occurred an immediate and overwhelming outburst of bad poetry. Even the more hardened practitioners of this difficult art found their emotions titillated; more than 3,000 of them sent verses to a prize contest conducted so as to determine who had written the best poem about Lindbergh. The three prizewinning poems, and the 97 next best now appear in a book: The Spirit of St. Louis. Five hundred dollars, the first prize, was very appropriately awarded to child-prodigy Nathalia Crane. She expressed...