Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gerard B. Lambert's famed yacht Yankee, smartly handled by her owner against the seven other biggest racing sloops now in commission in the U. S.: the King's Cup race. No. 1 sailing event of years when there is no contest for the America's Cup; in light breezes, off Newport...
...John Hamilton reached San Francisco last week on an airplane stumping-tour of the West, Herbert Hoover was drafted to serve his party for the modest job of introducing him to a political rally at the War Memorial Opera House. Said Introducer Hoover: "This campaign is more than a contest be tween two parties. It is more than a contest between two men. It is a contest of two philosophies of government...
...version of Die Meistersinger, cafe talk was all of how the grey little conductor had rehearsed the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to a frazzle in an effort to bring it up to the standard of his New York Philharmonic Symphony. One story was that Toscanini, defying precedent, placed the song contest sequence in the last act of Die Meistersinger to the right of the stage, justified his decision by referring to Wagner's original score. Reminded that Widow Wagner had always done it the other way around at Bayreuth, Toscanini snarled: "Oh, mama was not so clever as papa...
...country wins the Olympic Games. Officially each contest is a separate event. To consider them all as a unit and arrive at a satisfactory result would be impractical. On the Olympic program there are 22 sports, each containing numerous events, and no two nations would be likely to agree on their comparative importance. Nonetheless, to provide a convenient summary of the Games and some sort of basis for comparison, U. S. sports writers long ago invented a system of tabulation. Considering kayak-paddling the equivalent of foot-racing and awarding ten points for each first place, five for each second...
Lucille Langhanke was born in Quincy, Ill. 30 years ago. When she grew up pretty, her parents started to train her for the films. Running second to Clara Bow in a beauty contest, Lucille went West. In 1925 Douglas Fairbanks chose her for leading lady in Don Q. Thereafter, as Mary Astor, she enjoyed a profitable, if not sensational, cinema career. In 1930 Miss Astor's first husband, Director Kenneth Hawks, was killed in a plane smash. Recovering from this shock, Miss Astor was attended by Dr. Thorpe, a dressy Hollywood gynecologist, whom she married within a year...