Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...qualify for the Nobel prize a writer needs an international reputation, a large body of work and a grey frost of years. It also helps if his country has not received an award for some time, because the Academicians at Stockholm like to strike a delicate balance between diplomacy and recognition of literary merit. Once it decided that Italy was due for an award, the Nobel Prize Committee was of necessity limited in its choice to four men: Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, Estheticist Benedetto Croce, Historian Guglielmo Ferrero, Playwright Pirandello. Drama lovers the world over were highly pleased...
...born on a back-country Illinois farm in 1867. Working his way through Nebraska University's medical school, he graduated at 36, started practice in South Dakota's Black Hills where he often had to ride 150 mi. in a buggy to reach his patients. Like many a frost-bitten South Dakotan he moved, aged 52, to California. There, after a spell as assistant city health officer in Long Beach, he turned again to private practice. A kindly doctor, he brooded over his experience of human misery, and conceived a Plan...
...sets of jeweled cuff links, studs, tie pins, fobs, watch chains, etc. A railroad man, he enjoyed blazoning the fact by wearing what became one of his most famed diamond arrangements- the Transportation Set. The diamonds of the Transportation Set have long been dispersed but last week Black, Starr & Frost -Gorham, oldtime Manhattan jewelers, put on exhibition the platinum settings from which the stones glittered in the days when they were making newspaper copy and table conversation throughout the land...
...Pecora scenting a tainted situation in the matter of B.M.T. bonds, have caused that noted headline hound to break forth into full cry, to the consternation of the youthful counsel for the Commission, who, it is said, Burns Pecora up. Any inquisition at this stage will prove a killing frost to the budding confidence of security holders...