Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prove he has a sense of humor, Minister Goebbels' newssheet, Der Angriff, thereupon began a joke contest. First prize...
...Prize-winning poem in a patriotic literature contest held by Kodan Kurabu, popular Tokyo monthly, was written by a naval flier...
When he had painted all the blue pictures he wanted to paint, Picasso immersed himself in the life of Paris, went to the circus once a week and to prize fights with two new, tall, stalwart friends: Painter Andre Derain and Poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Working more during the day, in 1905 and 1906 Picasso poured out the pictures of the Rose Period: —robats, harlequins, companies of jugglers and players all painted with a wistful delicacy and long-boned grace. By 1907 he had been sufficiently housebroken to go to the Stein "at homes...
...popular standards, and by her own, Edna Ferber has been a roaring success. Not only have her fiction and plays made her rich, they have brought her public honors: a Pulitzer Prize, an honorary degree from Columbia University, an invitation to the White House...
...this coming out of the radio one night last week chuckled because they were sitting at home, were perched before bars, or rolling along in their cars-and not among the fans who paid as much as $16.50 for a seat to watch a two-and-a-half-minute prize fight between 25-year-old Joe Louis and 25-year-old John Henry Lewis at Madison Square Garden...