Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ In South Dakota, choice of a Democratic candidate for Senator was complicated less by national than personal considerations. In 1936, Senator Peter Norbeck died just as Governor Tom Berry was rounding out his second term. Governor Berry might have liked to retire and move into the vacancy. But he...
She is beginning to be afraid that Mother's Day has got completely out of hand. She still sends violent telegrams to President Roosevelt, occasionally walks round Philadelphia streets carrying a black satchel full of publicity releases and pictures of herself taken shortly after her mother's death...
The Sabbath calm at turreted Windsor Castle, where King George, Queen Elizabeth and their daughters were spending the weekend, was shattered last week as the castle was "bombed" in a mock air-raid. No airplanes flecked the sky and the Royal Family strolled about the grounds as the "bombs" went...
Having nothing that corresponds closely to either cinema's gold-plated statuette award (informally called "Oscar") or literature's, press's and theatre's Pulitzer Prizes, radio takes its annual laurels from the Women's National Radio Committee! This organization is affiliated with numerous women...
The novel receiving the award is cast in the same mold of undistinguishable mediocrity, harmless, until it is puffed up as a great American work of art. Herein lies the evil: the Pulitzer Committee by putting its stamp of approval on such flimsy material, sets a standard of mediocrity which...