Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon to subside. The Surprise-of-1937 last week was not even remotely so important to the French or British as his sending of soldiers into the Rhineland but it was sprung by Hitler as something immensely important to him and to all Germans. Surprise: "Acceptance of the Nobel Prize is herewith forbidden to all Germans for all future time...
This was the Leader's idea of wiping out the stain of that "horrible insult, to German Honor," the awarding of the 1936 Nobel Peace Prize to an inmate of a Nazi prison camp.* Not only the Peace but all other Nobel Prizes are forever barred to citizens of the Fatherland. The new decree went on to set up three annual prizes of $40,000 each in the Arts and Sciences to go only to Germans. Reason given by the Ministry of Propaganda officially: "When we Germans do a thing, we do it thoroughly...
...Nobel Prize-winning Playwright Eugene O'Neill sold "Casa Genotta," his Spanish-type house at Sea Island Beach, Ga., to retired Shirtmaker George Alfred Cluett of Williamstown, Mass...
This year's president is one of Princeton's Grand Old Men, Biologist Edwin Grant Conklin. Retiring president is Physicist Karl Taylor Compton, who is also the President of M. I. T. and a brother of Nobel Laureate Arthur Holly Compton...
...Theatre there was only Eugene O'Neill with his 1936 Nobel Prize for work done in other years; in the Cinema only such as Robert Taylor with his 1936 profile. In Medicine there was in 1936 the Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service, Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., the great syphilologist who this year got syphilis on the radio for the first time...