Word: contests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White-haired, stiff-necked Captain Donald F. Smith was amazed. The contest, he declared, had "degenerated into a farce." The committee meekly called it off. Explained a disgruntled committeeman: "The good captain didn't want to be seen walking down the aisle with a sweep woman on his arm." Mrs. Clauson sadly announced that she would not attend the ball at all. Promptly, some 800 other workers turned in their tickets. Said one: "If this contest is for the lieutenants' girl friends, then let the lieutenants go to the ball...
Calculating Eye. Lucas Cranach's 16th Century view of the Judgment of Paris was classical in theme only. His illustration of the first beauty contest, in which Paris, after some difficulty, decided in favor of Venus, bristled with Gothic touches. Cranach had presented fast-stepping Mercury with an iron-grey beard, a studious look and a crystal ball instead of a golden apple. He had dressed Paris in the ponderous armor and plumed hat of a German prince, gave him an insufferably arrogant and calculating...
...Coolidge prize is awarded each year to the top Harvard debater. The six finalists will argue two days before the triangle debate in the Coolidge Contest. The best individual speaker will receive the cash prize...
College photographers will have a chance to display the results of their darkroom hours in the salon and color slide contest being sponsored by the Photographic Society. The contest ends on Tuesday...
Prints and slides will be judged by M. I. Elis, president of the Boston Camera Club, and James M. Carpener, assistant professor of Fine Arts. The judges will hold a public showing of the color slides in the Union Upper Common Room on the final contest day. Black and white prints will be judged in a private contest with the point of choosing a "print of the year...