Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pinansky, who lived in Lowell House while he was in college, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, of the Law Review, and hold four scholarships in college plus several in Law School including the Sears prize and the Detur award...
They Made Me a Criminal (Warner Bros.) is not, despite its title, a picture about unhappy gangsters. It is a straight forward story of regeneration by fresh air and pure love. Johnnie (John Garfield), a middleweight prize fighter suspected of murder, of which he is innocent rather by good luck than good management, runs away to an Arizona date farm, where he encounters Gloria Dickson and the Dead End kids. Result: he is transformed from a mean-tempered hooligan into a model of good behavior...
...forthcoming World's Fair is a heroic abstraction from solid geometry: a Trylon & Perisphere (a 700-ft. triangular spire and 200-ft. globe). Between now and March 15th, a lot of U. S. poets will try to translate that symbol into verse. Their incentive: a $1,000 first prize (and five additional prizes of $100 each) offered by the Academy of American Poets for the Fair's Official Poem. Judges: William Rose Benet, Louis Untermeyer, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. For U. S. poets, the first prize is big money indeed-twice their average yearly earnings, about three times Poet...
...contestants will name their poems (three allowed per poet) The World of Tomorrow, after the Fair's optimistic theme. Since poets today are not noted for their optimistic outlook, the Fair's prize competition raises one of the most interesting poetic questions of the year...
...Paris, a ticket held by Alex Dupont won a 1,000,000-franc prize in the national lottery drawing. But M. Dupont had died, few weeks before. After a long and futile search for the ticket, his widow decided that it must be in the pocket of the white duck suit her husband was buried in. She got permission, exhumed the body, found the ticket, cashed...