Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock Nominee Landon, who planned to spend the night with a friend in St. Joseph. Mo., rose to : bring to an end one of the strangest interludes in the history of U. S. presidential campaigns. As the two new friends parted to resume their strenuous contest for the nation's greatest prize, Franklin Roosevelt said: "Well. Governor, however this comes out, we'll see more of each other. Either you come to see me or I'll come...
...General Died at Dawn (Paramount). Leftist admirers of Playwright Clifford Odets may find it a little hard to get excited over the issues he raises in his first screenplay. Based on a story by Charles G. Booth, the contest it involves is between O'Hara (Gary Cooper), an idealistic U. S. soldier-of-fortune, operating on behalf of a Chinese province being pillaged by a war lord, and the war lord himself. Last week at the picture's premiere in Manhattan's Paramount Theatre, where the class struggle has heretofore been manifest only in arguments between patrons...
...halfway mark, Typsters Sherry & Kolin glanced at the score board, saw they were falling far behind, got up and quit. For many years international typewriting contests were sponsored by Underwood Typewriter Co. but any manufacturer is glad to furnish a machine to contestants for the good advertising of having a champion use it. For several years Underwoods won. Then came Depression and the contests stopped. Last week's contest was run by International Commercial Schools Contest Association, and the three survivors, tearing the hearts out of their machines, were using Royals...
Last week John Thomas Mclntyre made Pete's subsequent adventures the basis of a fast moving, 504-page novel that won first place as the U. S. contender in an elaborate contest called the All-Nations Prize Novel Competition. Jointly sponsored by the Literary Guild, Warner Bros., Farrar & Rinehart and publishers in eleven countries, the All-Nations' prize is to be awarded after an international elimination contest. As U. S. contender, Author Mclntyre wins $4,000; if he wins the All-Nations' prize he gets $19,000. Steps Going Down is a lively and frequently amusing book...
What happens in the woods and rivers during the journey, in the fort during the siege, and in the Huron camp after the fort has fallen, is a complicated triangular contest for life & death between three groups, representing three irreconcilable loyalties. Major Duncan Heyward (Henry Wilcoxon) and Colonel Munro are trying to beat the French; Magua (Bruce Cabot), renegade Huron scout, is trying to get himself a paleface squaw; Hawkeye (Randolph Scott), third-party Colonial, is trying to keep Heyward's Redcoat notions of wood-warfare from destroying all of them. Randolph Scott walks away with the picture...