Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three prizes of $25 are offered to the writer of the best prose manuscript or poem submitted during the months of January, February, and March. The remaining $50 will be awarded as a final prize at the end of the contest, April 1, to the author who has shown a general excellence in both verse and prose writing...
...Later in the week, the White House had a musicale all its own- 17th and 18th Century chamber music played from original manuscript on 16 Stradivari, Montagnana, Guadanini and Amati instruments from the Ronald Wanamaker collection, under the direction of Dr. Thaddeus Rich. When he heard that Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh was nearing Mexico City (see p. 28), President Coolidge took-pen-in-hand and signed an act of Congress conferring the Congressional Medal on Col. Lindbergh. A little while later, while the President was sitting to Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson Wright of Cleveland for his portrait, the daughter of another...
Students of all universities and colleges are eligible to send in articles. No manuscript must exceed 500 words, and should be sent in at an early date, in order that the service may be started by January...
...prize is offered for the best Manuscript Poetry Prize, and anyone who is a citizen of the United States is eligible for the award. A single poem will not be considered for this prize, and the total number of lines of poetry written must not exceed 700. All manuscripts must be sent not later than May 1 to Manuscript Poetry Book Prize, 122 East 76th Street, New York City...
...TIME, Nov. 21, 1927, p. 27, under the heading "Manuscripts" you told of the recent finding of a manuscript play by Oscar Wilde, or as you called him, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. The matter I wish to speak about is extremely small, but, knowing TIME'S desire for accuracy in all things, I offer a correction. Mr. Wilde was commonly called Oscar Wilde, but he was christened Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. Obviously it was your intention to give Wilde's name in full, but you omitted the Fingal. The Encyclopaedia Britannica also omits...