Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dorothy Parker, funny vulgarienne. was awarded the 0. Henry Memorial first prize for her short story "Big Blonde," published in last February's Bookman. Letters and telegrams to the north-woods retreat of Wilson Follett advised him that his story "Oak" had been judged second best. When he did not reply, second prize was given to Sidney Howard, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (They Knew What They Wanted) for his story, "The Homesick Ladies...
...hovers around the vine-clad door and the kindly light of the autumn sun kisses the curly hair of happy children." Lawyer Carpenter called the mill-owners, his employers, "a holy gang, a God-serving gang." He recited a poem to Mother, shook hands with Communist Press Agent Liston Oak, sat down...
...Princeton, pausing in China on his way to the Institute of Pacific Relations at Kyoto, said: "I told father I was due in New York Sunday, Dec. 1, to be ready to begin work [in his father's office] Monday, Dec. 2." His father's oak-paneled office in the Standard Oil building (No. 26 Broadway) looks down from 20 stories into New York Harbor. The work done there consists chiefly in administering the billion-dollar Rockefeller fortune. Rev. Basil Jellicoe, cousin of Earl Jellicoe (John Rushworth) (Commander of the British grand fleet during the War), applied...
Although rain was beating down on Cambridge, Md., last week, men enthusiastically lugged into the Choptank River a one-ton steel model of the steel islands (seadromes) which Edward R. Armstrong of Holly Oak, Del., proposes to anchor 375 miles apart across the Atlantic. The model, 1/32 the size of intended seadromes, consists essentially of a rectangular platform. To its underside are attached hollow steel columns, each ending in a circular disk. Air in the cylinders was sufficient to keep the device floating on the Choptank and the platform several feet above the water. Speedboats dashed around the model. Their...
...Rockville Center, L. I., a fire-alarm clanged, roused the Live Oak Volunteer Engine Co., which sped in search of the fire. After dashing vainly about the town, they learned that their fire house was alight, had almost burned down...