Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cumulus cloud, was instantly sucked up into it by powerful air currents. Airman Udo Fischer got panicky. At 5,000 feet he bailed out. Minutes later he landed in a farmer's field near Big Flats, N. Y., unhurt but out of the running for the Elmira Soaring Contest's annual $1,500 trophy...
...When the Hays Office at first thumbs-downed the picture's title, Producer D. Sylva and Director Kanin, an old Samuel Goldwyn man, offered the company a $200 prize for the best substitute. The contest was abandoned when Actor Frank Albertson solemnly submitted as his entry "Du Sylva Threads Among the Goldwyn...
...about his life. Harper & Brothers, when their Horse and Buggy Doctor was a success last winter, had asked the Christian Herald to discover a parson as kindly and old-fashioned as best-selling Dr. Arthur Emanuel Hertzler. The Protestant monthly (most successful in the U. S.) opened a $250 contest for 500-word descriptions of rural parsons, received 1,000 entries. Paron Gilbert will write, Christian Herald will print serially, and Harpers will publish in toto next spring Parson Gilbert's life story. Tentative title: Horse Sense and Homelike Religion...
...Sousa, 34, son of a longtime member of the Marine Band, had become its leader. The heavy-bearded bandmaster dashed off the march, had the Band play it on the Smithsonian Institution grounds, where 25,000 people gathered for the presentation of prizes in a children's essay contest sponsored by the Post's Amateur Authors Association...
...traveling salesman himself at 15, studied law, took up journalism before he married Josephine Herbst (Nothing Is Sacred, Money for Love), published a book, What Happens, in Paris in 1926. In 1932 he shared with Thomas Wolfe a $5,000 prize in a Scribner's short-novel contest. Herrmann's work, Big Little Trip, was about a jewelry salesman who oversold his customers. The Salesman suggests that its author is oversold on salesmen...