Word: cresson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Born in Paris 31 years ago, Jo Mielziner was set to drawing by his artist father almost as soon as he could walk. In the U. S. he studied in the Art Students' League of New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He won the Cresson scholarship two years in succession, studied painting in Vienna in 1919-20 when Austria was falling to pieces. Director Max Reinhardt was doing magnificent things on the stage of the Bourg Theatre. After one season in Detroit, Jo Mielziner was taken up by the New York Theatre Guild. Since then...
...Memorial Prize. Alfred Noble (1844-1914) was an able civil engineer, a builder of one of the five Sault Ste. Marie Canal locks, a builder of bridges across the Harlem and Mississippi rivers, an adviser on construction of the Panama Canal, a winner of the John Fritz and Elliott Cresson medals for engineering achievement. Several years after Engineer Noble died, five great U. S. engineering societies-jointly honored his memory. They sought $100,000, collected $20,000-insufficient for an imposing monument, yet enough to provide a $500 prize for any of their members not over 30 who should write...
...worn to rags!" Some undeclared embroidered pajamas were for Daughter Roberta who remained in Ireland to visit Grandma Semple and to "visit our 30 missions in Africa and India." Edward of Wales played cautious baccarat at Le Touquet for 10,000 francs a stake. His opponent was Mrs. James Cresson Parrish, Manhattan socialite. Soon she won 250,000 francs (about $10,000) from him, let him win it back. He beamed his delight...