Word: prize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later Miss France cinched the title when she met and defeated the belated Miss Italy and an ersatz Miss Austria whipped up at the last minute from a Paris fashion house. Miss Italy walked off with a consolation prize: a gallant proposal of marriage from her indignant impresario. She accepted...
Philadelphia's prize rookie (he gets the standard rookie salary: $5,000 a year) is wholly unlike the Ring Lardner version. A lithe 170-pounder, Richie is well-dressed, polite and as serious about baseball as he is about most other things. On the road, he goes to a lot of movies and lounges in hotel lobbies, like other ballplayers, staring idly at passersby. He neither smokes nor drinks (about three bottles of beer a year don't count...
...NOBEL PRIZE TREASURY (612 pp.)-Edited by Marshall McClintock - Doubleday...
...Nobel award is still the world's outstanding literary prize, and the only one of true international importance. Some critics have complained that the awards have concentrated on authors of distinction in small countries and have overemphasized a kind of contemporary fiction purporting to show simple peasants living close to the soil...
...Nobel Prize committee passed over Mark Twain, Ibsen, Hardy, Gorky, Chekhov, Conrad, Henry James, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Arnold Bennett, Willa Gather, Swinburne, George Meredith, Zola, Proust, Joyce, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Rainer Maria Rilke. Its greatest oversight: although it was established in 1901, and Tolstoy did not die until 1910, it never gave an award to the greatest novelist of them...