Word: contests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judge in Thomas Alva Edison's scholarship contest...
When his rum was refused, Edward Pawley in the role of the bootlegger stood outside the closed rooming house door and said: "You can go to hell." This and his subsequent remarks were murmurous realities. The rest was mere melodramatic pressure. Peggy Shannon, an advertised titian contest winner from Pine Bluff, Ark., flirted gaily through the first act but disappeared before the grim days...
...Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle was engaged in an exhibition bayonet contest at a Pitman, N. J., military camp of which he is head. His opponent, acting within the rules of combat, dropped his rifle, seized a dagger, lunged inside the Major's guard, inflicted a flesh wound. Major Biddle continued fighting until his wife intervened...
...ship was named, oddly, the 'Untin' Bowler, partly because a hunting bowler hat is supposed to protect its wearer if he falls, and partly (said Chicagoans) because of a McCormick family joke about a child, a bowler hat and a pressing necessity. The Tribune started a prize contest, $100 for the best guess why the plane was named 'Untin' Bowler...
...Chicago, plans were afoot last week for a World's Fair Symphony Band, to be sent, after a Chicago contest, to other U. S. cities to advertise the 1933 World's Fair. Chicago musicians, under famed U. S. bandmasters, will compete this summer in Chicago parks. The Fair-conscious Chicago Daily News guaranteed funds for five concerts, published a plea for funds for 40 more...