Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant's statement followed an announcement Monday that Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing is presently working on a bill which would ask a $30,000,000 appropriation for scholar ships to high school seniors...
Furcolo, who has introduced unsuccessful bills in 1949, 1950, and 1952, told the CRIMSON that legislation on which Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing is now working, "while not identical, does incorporate many of the same features as my bills."--He said he doubted that the new legislation would have any more success than his bills have had in the past...
...Oscar Handlin, associate professor of History, yesterday won the seven Pulitzer Prize in History to be awards a University professor...
...Pretty, Oscar-winning Cinemactress Anne (The Razor's Edge) Baxter is noted, she complains, only for her skill in playing straight dramatic roles. Last week she ably played straight man for her pressagent in a campaign for a zippier reputation. She is glad, she told newsmen in a Hollywood press conference, that in her new picture, My Wife's Best Friend, she has the role of an Egyptian belly dancer and wears a topaz in her navel. "I've been presented as terribly nice, a good actress, wife and mother," said she. "This is wonderful...
...Oscar Wilde summarized a popular view of fashion in "A Woman of No Importance": "The essential thing for a necktie is style. A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life." His contemporary Benjamin Disraeli modified the old proverb so that it became. "Dress does not make the man, but it often makes a successful...