Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neill was awakened in his rented house over-looking Puget Sound to be told by his wife (Actress Carlotta Monterey) that he had just won $39,314. Professor Sophus Keith Wintrier of the University of Washington had telephoned her that the Associated Press had telephoned him that the Nobel Foundation had awarded Playwright O'Neill its 1936 literature prize and the newspaper boys were on their way out. Lounging in old pants and sweater at the side of Professor Winther, his good friend and official biographer, Eugene O'Neill was soon telling reporters how it felt...
...surprised at receiving this generous share of the dead Swedish dynamite inventor's money, along with the world's most coveted literary honor. As a rule the Swedish Academy scrupulously attempts to see that no one nation or branch of literature gets more than its share of Nobel Prizes. The literary prize was not awarded last year. Since 1930, therefore, it has been given just five times, twice to U. S. citizens (Sinclair Lewis, 1930; Eugene O'Neill, 1936), thrice to dramatists (John Galsworthy, 1932; Luigi Pirandello, 1934; Eugene O'Neill, 1936). Even...
...showed how a Fascist dictatorship might come to the U. S. Indignant Mr. Lewis thereupon offered the play rights to WPA's Federal Theatre Project, which went ahead with plans to produce the play simultaneously in a score of cities all over the nation. It was agreed that Nobel Prizewinner Lewis and his collaborator, Paramount Writer John C. ("Jack") Moffitt, should divide royalties of $50 per week for each theatre in which the play was shown. After squabbles with his collaborator and with Federal Theatre Director Hallie Flanagan during which, according to rumor, Mr. Lewis was on the verge...
...awarding the 1936 Nobel Prize for Medicine last week, the Caroline Medical Institute at Stockholm again pointed to a peculiarity of English medical research. Only one Englishman, the late Sir Ronald (malaria) Ross (1857-1935), has earned the superb salute of a Nobel Prize for work accomplished entirely by himself. Four others have been obliged to split their prizes with men who did equally superb work in the same field of research...
...lecturing to crowds of adulating scholars, he declared: "We do not have knowledge as to the therapeutical or pharmaceutical value of these researches. In the end they may throw light on causes rather than provide materials" (TIME, May 1, 1933). Nonetheless, acetylcholine, typical object of what Nobel Prizewinners Dale & Loewi call autopharmacology, is being used by enterprising doctors to treat arterial hypertension, inflamed arteries, gangrene of feet and hands, profuse sweating in tuberculosis, flaccidity of the bladder and intestines, bed sores...