Word: prize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...payoff came when the prize bull mastiff turned out to be the property of Pete Fuller, last year's wrestling captain. Unfortunately, Pete was called away to Lowell during the show to dispose of a pair of promising young Golden Glove heavyweights. The man he left in charge, however, informed the local press that Mr. Fuller usually called his dog Anne...
...interests of the bourgeoisie, catering to their decadent and perverted tastes." And a brave or venturesome man named Byeskin had even found fault with a picture by one Yar-Kravchenko entitled Gorky Reads to Comrades Stalin, Molotov and Voroshilov His Story, "Girl and Death", which subsequently won a Stalin Prize...
...moment it looked as though he might come through. After lagging for half a mile behind horses that two years ago would only have been warmups for him, he began to cut his way through the pack. It was too late; the best he could do was third-and prize money...
Remarried. Martin Flavin, 63, who won the New York Theater Club Medal for his play The Criminal Code (1929), later switched to novels and won the Pulitzer Prize for Journey in the Dark (1943); and third wife Cornelia Clampett Flavin, 51, who divorced him in 1944; in Carmel, Calif...
...want to measure how much things have changed since Sidney Howard's play, "They Knew What They Wanted," won the Pulitzer prize in the late Twenties, go to the Shubert and see its revival with Paul Muni. In his preface Howard claims timelessness for his play, since "it is shamelessly, consciously, and even proudly derived from the legend of Tristram and Yseult...