Word: oval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Series, consoled itself with a new unknown hero to match St. Louis' Pepper Martin. Franklin C. Watkins of Philadelphia won the first Carnegie prize of $1.500 and also the Albert C. Lehman prize of $2,000 for the best purchasable painting. Hero Watkins' prizewinner was a large oval canvas entitled "Suicide in Costume." It showed the body of a grimacing clown with a smoking revolver clutched in one hand, sprawled over a bed. In manner it was a little reminiscent of the late great George Bellows and Jean Louis Forain...
Mitten Move. Chairman of the board of Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. is oval-faced Dr. Arthur Alan Mitten. His father, Thomas Eugene Mitten, operated P. R. T. through Mitten Management, Inc. until he died by drowning in October 1929. In addition to the greater part of a $3,000,000 estate, Son Mitten was bequeathed the painful legacy of rehabilitating the company. The nature of the late Manager Mitten's operations has been questioned, and last week P. R. T. was preparing to sue for possession of his estate. Gracefully and probably shrewdly, Son Mitten turned the estate...
...John stood pale blue pilasters around the ballroom, hung it with coral pink curtains, placed above the dancers an oval blue sky with dancing white stars. Edmund Dulac did the smoking room, "Cathay Lounge." with a silver ceiling, panels of black & silver glass, accents of Chinese red lacquer and Macassar ebony...
...will finally play its baseball game with Hosel University of Japan today on Soldiers Field starting at 3. o'clock. This will be only part of the week end activity of the nine, however, since the Crimson forces will travel to Medford to play Tufts University in the Tufts Oval tomorrow...
...School for Social Research met the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education, which in April announced its program, to be financed for the next three years by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and the Carnegie Corporation (TIME, April 13). Sitting in the New School's oval auditorium, the council heard broadcast from the White House the voice of President Hoover, introducing to them the voice of their president, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, director of the California Institute of Technology. Said President Hoover: "Dr. Millikan is more than a physicist. He has given to America great contributions in the whole...