Word: prize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play which these persons witnessed with enthusiasm was plainly designed less as a model of intelligent drama than as a means of bringing their old friend before the footlights in praiseworthy poses. On the stage Jack Dempsey is an honest prize-fighter with a crooked manager; he loves a brunette who, because her brother is in the power of a bad gambler, agrees for his sake to put catnip in the champion's water-bottle so that the gambler may be assured in advance who will win the big fight. The audience, on the other hand, knows that...
...abandoned strokes because for scornful presentation it is necessary only to be cameractual, phonographic. The rest of the characters look, smirk and jabber as if they belonged. The story is that of Buddy Miles, an apparently pure in body−if not in spirit−miss who is prize sucker-bait at "an exclusive gambling casino." First to be hooked is Chris Miller, part-owner of the gambling-purgatory. Buddy Miles is not aware that her best friend, Julia, estranged wife of a detective, was Miller's mistress, so when Julia jealously threatened to blab to Buddy and thereby...
There were many races, the most important of which was the non-stop transcontinental derby. Col. Arthur Goebel in a Wasp-motored Lockhead-Vega Yankee Doodle was the first to arrive. But he won no prize because he had stopped once to refuel. Even so his time from New York to Los Angeles was a record; 23 hours, 50 minutes. The other entrants in the race had been forced down. Col. William Thaw seriously injured, had said before starting on the race: "I'm fat, I'll bounce...
...Hartley, 40, poverty-stricken loom sweeper, won a $100,000 newspaper prize offered by Publisher Lord Rothermere, guessing the scores of 24 football matches played last week in London...
...large special fund, and for the benefit of members, suggestions as to what books shall be purchased are welcomed and, wherever possible, followed. Following the spirit of the library, the Union each year in the past, has run an essay contest in January with a $35 first prize...