Word: prize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sadly crooked. A Johanna Smith soliloquy, delivered aboard her at 3 a. m. by Louis Wolheim, famed as hard-boiled "Captain Flagg" in What Price Glory? and now a cinemactor, was reported as follows: "The roulette is bad, the poker, twenty-one and chuck-a-lick worse, but the prize albatross these guys hang around a neck is at the craps table. A game of chance...
...Kronstadt, of course, Red sailors held jollifications and high jinks. They knew that the L55 is a noble prize of a war which, although never declared (see France), was nonetheless hotly fought. Indeed, the L-55, a ship of 1,150 tons, is almost as large as the recently raised U.S. submarine S-4 (TIME, Dec. 26), and twice as large as the Italian F14, sunk and raised last fortnight. Soviet technicians added to the jollification by announcing that the Red sailors' prize is in sufficiently good condition 'to be made serviceable, seaworthy, deadly. Citizens of the British...
...Ruhr (which they had seized), and laid the German side of the foundations for the Dawes Plan. He was one of the Locarno Peace Pact signatories (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925); and he got Germany into the League (TIME, Sept. 13, 1926); and so he won the Nobel Peace Prize (TIME...
Starting from Oakland, Calif., for the first West-East non-stop continental flight, Colonel Art Goebel last week reached New York, 18 hours, 58 minutes later. Last August, he won the Dole prize for flight to Hawaii...
...Johanna Aim, 94, said that she had six children, 26 grandchildren, ten greatgrandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Then she began to dance a waltz which resulted in her receiving great applause and a prize which pleased...