Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rose, the Broadway Barnum, worked up an act called "Beauty & the Beast." In this, shapely Lawrene Nevell, clad in breechcloth, brassiere and flowing cape,' did a dance in a lions' cage, flapping her cape in the faces of five large lions owned by a Dallas veterinarian named Nobel Hamiter (see cut). The lethargy of its bestial stooges made "Beauty & the Beast" less titillating than Billy Rose had expected, and it was soon replaced by a "Ziegfeld Milk Bath." Dr. Hamiter took his lions off to Chicago to become part of a vaudeville troupe called Circus de Paris...
Died. Luigi Pirandello, 69, metaphysical playwright, member of the Italian Academy, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature; of pneumonia; in Rome. A spry, goat-bearded poet, novelist and schoolteacher, he turned to playwriting at 50, achieved fame in 1920 with Six Characters in Search of an Author. Believing life "a very sad piece of buffoonery," he constructed his unrealistic plots to prove that "nothing is true and anything might be." At his death, unpredictable Playwright Pirandello was finishing a volume to be called Memories of My Involuntary Sojourn on Earth...
Lucky winner gets $40,000 from the Nobel Peace Prize. The President of the Conference, Argentine Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas, got his just before the statesmen reached Buenos Aires (TIME, Dec. 7). This week Adolf Hitler held still locked up in a Berlin sanatorium Nobel Peace Prizeman Carl von Ossietzky. Although the Prize Prisoner protested that his health is quite good enough for him to go to Norway and receive the $40,000 which the Nobel Committee wants to give him as a slap at Dictatorship (TIME, Dec. 7), Nazi newsorgans stated firmly that Nazi doctors do not think...
EUGENE GLADSTONE O'NEILL, who recent won the Nobel prize for literature, lives on an island off the coast of Georgia. Subjected to increases attention and public blandishment since his Anna Christie in 1922, he tells few people how he feels about it, even when he wins such meritorious attention as the Nobel prize...
Unhappily the discord was already far advanced. The entire German Press had been thundering for days that the Nobel award to a "traitor" was an "insult" to Germany, hinted strongly that Der Führer might break off diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Haakon VII. In Oslo the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Dr. Halvdan Koht, had taken such precautions as he could. When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, of which he was a member, appeared likely to pick Carl von Ossietzky, Dr. Koht resigned from the committee. Into his office last week raged the German Minister to Sweden, Prince Viktor...