Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within a short time the committee will announce the rules for the Ivy Orator competition, which, following the rule laid down by the Student Council last year, will be run off in the form of a contest among all speakers rather than being an elective post...
Because of the outstanding number of volunteer workers supplied to meet the growing demands of Boston and Cambridge Settlement Houses, Charles L. Burwell '39, Edmond L. Charbonnier '39, and Irving S. Michelman '39 were nominated in the first contest for cabinet positions ever held by the organization...
Among the residents of "Newberry Hall," run by an elaborately folksy old gentleman named Humphrey Newberry (Charles Coburn), are a he-man who gives blood donations, a dyspeptic who reads obituary notices, a Kansas City beauty contest winner, a cinemacting goose that earns $15 per day for its owner. Plot complications are ground out when a personable newcomer (Russell Hardie) turns out to be not only a university psychologist but the estranged husband of Newberry's daughter. For humor Sun Kissed draws heavily on the special California attitude toward oranges, climate, Florida, earthquakes...
...Fairbanks, Alaska, hockey, snowshoeing, skiing, curling, fireworks and a beauty contest were part of an international goodwill and progress celebration which wound up with a 16-mi. all-comers' dog race. Wearing a gold and ivory crown, Beauty Queen Marguerite Lee saw John Allen's team of "Irish Wolves" (Malemute, Irish setter and wolf stock) win, on average time for three heats...
...Washington from the Winchester, Va. farm where he retired ten years ago went eccentric Harry K. Thaw, murderer of Stanford White, to contest a $10,000 damage suit brought by the Shoreham Hotel's Headwaiter Paul Jaeck. Waiter Jaeck charged that Thaw, when handed a $57 dinner check in 1935, had attacked him, ground cigaret ashes into his eye. Waiter Jaeck was awarded $2,200 damages...