Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attract rural art lovers to the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia last week, fair officials held a contest for amateur painters, got Austin Faricy, professor of esthetics at Stephens College (for women) in Columbia, to judge it. Professor Faricy took one look at the entries, gave first prize to a barnyard scene called Farm Life, painted on a piece of muslin in oils and aluminum shellac...
Painted as if from an elevation (see cut) with little sky and no perspective, the prize picture showed a log cabin, a Negro couple in a buggy, a hunter and his dog, children drinking at a well, cats, chickens, livestock, a plow and a manure pile. Said Professor Faricy to complaining artists as he took his leave: "It is the finest piece of primitive art I have ever seen. If any riots start, you know where to find me." No riots followed, but Missouri fairgoers stood in line to gape at Mrs. Lewis' work, stared at the painting that...
...where he wrote plays), to George Pierce Baker's 47 Workshop at Harvard (where he studied how to write them), to the New Republic, to Hearst's International, to the old Life. In 1925 his first Broadway success, They Knew What They Wanted, won him the Pulitzer Prize. Versatile, systematic, a prodigious worker (he sometimes kept three jobs going at once), he spent some of his time in Hollywood (which he hated), most of it around the New York theatre. This fall he was to have put on his first play under the banner of Manhattan...
This time it was Carish Lewis '42 with his story "The End Of It." The prize for the winner of the national contest...
Nineteen men have won Prize Scholarships from various schools, and twenty two will be the holders of Cambridge or Buckley awards...