Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dapper 16-year-old from Phoenix, Ariz, with wavy hair not unlike that of National Republican Chairman John Hamilton. His name: John Janson. He was speaking last week in the small ballroom of Washington's famed Willard Hotel, competing in the finals of a national oratorical contest for which Mr. Hamilton's committee had put up $15,000 in regional and main prizes. Young Orator Janson's platform manner was prodigiously polished for a junior high school freshman. His words had an authentic Republican ring...
...same way that she got Sudetenland (see p. 25). "We did not steal the Belgian Congo and nobody will steal it from us." Chimed Premier Paul Henri Spaak before the Chamber of Deputies: "The Congo belongs to us. Our rights to it are established and nobody can contest them...
...play contest sponsored by the Allied Authors of New York went a script written by Convict No. 59727 of San Quentin Prison. Though burdened with four different titles, it was minus part of Act I. Cause: prison censorship. Author's explanation of cause: "It was a love scene and may have been considered rough...
...three years, two rewritings-a period as hectic as one long house cleaning-Mrs. Gasparotti got it to come out right and sent it off under her maiden name, Elizabeth Seifert, to the Dodd, Mead-Redbook Magazine $10,000 novel contest. The day the news came she had won, she and the children "just sat down and looked at each other." That night her husband "didn't sleep a wink and I didn't get much rest myself...
...Winners Contest in January...