Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprise than to that of Washington correspondents who have been his admiring friends for 15 years. Paul Y.* Anderson gave the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the best 23 of his 44 years, helped earn it great prestige and himself a $16,000 salary, finally won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize with an almost single-handed crusade which reopened the reeking Teapot Dome scandal. Paul Anderson began to think increasingly of late that his endless exploits had also earned him an independence no other Washington correspondent enjoys. The disciplinarian Post-Dispatch disagreed, so the result of his frequent protracted absences was inevitable...
...Daily Snooze') until he got too good and met the fate of all who dare make the Screwball look like what he is-a five-letter word rhyming with drowsy. After putting in a lot of research work on it, Smiley turned in a story on a prominent prize fighter, which Screwball thought too good to use in his own paper. So he held it out, sold it to a magazine and pocketed the proceeds...
...Oakland, Calif, and Portland, Ore., for shows of two of the Pacific Coast's three important Roller associations, breeders last week hopefully expressed their prize birds. The complicated work of judging Oakland's 250 showbirds fell to Frank Bires and William Ragon (for their services, $300 each). They gave the show's master team championship to a quartet owned by San Diego's Olsen Schummer. It was the team's twelfth successive first prize...
Flautists. At the Reinhardt Galleries, 26 paintings by Spaniard Hipolito Hidalgo de Caviedes gave Manhattanites their first good look at the work of the Carnegie First Prize Winner of 1935. A specialist in china-clear coloring and slightly rococo composition, Artist de Caviedes brought none of his paintings with him when he hurriedly left Madrid a year ago, last week displayed mostly new pictures done in Cuba, including a starchy self-portrait (see cut). Hard for hard- shelled critics to resist were his cloudless canvases of Jark-skinned Cuban musicians and dancers, bright still-lifes, chic panels entitled Angel Musicians...
...bones in public, winner take Sadie. Ed sent Joe in to lose, reversed his instructions halfway through the match when Madison Square Garden wired an offer. But when the troupe left, Loser Noah was Garden-bound, Winner Joe happy in the blacksmith shop with his admiring prize...