Word: prizeman
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...spoke in English. Time and again his understanding Swedish audience rocked with laughter, found plenty of wit & humor in what the prizeman said...
Noticing that an extra, bemedaled servitor waited exclusively upon His Majesty, Prizeman Lewis jested...
Seeing King Gustaf prepare to smoke, Prizeman Lewis fished in his pockets for a cigaret. "When informed that no one but the King might smoke," cabled United Press, "Mr. Lewis left the cigaret in his pocket, but his face clearly reflected a strong Democratic sentiment...
...Giants." Even more nervous two days later, Prizeman Lewis paced up & down a hallway in the Stockholm Stock Exchange, jerked out his watch repeatedly, fussed with his tie. But when the moment came for him to face the Stock Exchange hall, packed with the elite of Sweden, Sinclair Lewis of Sauk Center, Minn, conquered himself, spoke straight out and clearly the great speech of his life...
Such a one, Prizeman Lewis indicated, is Princeton's Professor Emeritus Dr. Henry van Dyke, member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters who recently criticized the Nobel award to Babbitt's creator as a "backhanded compliment" to America (TIME. Dec. 8). Flaying the 50 academicians as a group, Mr. Lewis nevertheless made ten exceptions, evinced a weakness for: Nicholas Murray Butler (president of the Academy), Wilbur Lucius Cross, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, James Trus-low Adams, Hamlin Garland, Owen Wister, Brand Whitlock, Edith Wharton, Booth Tarkington. But the Academy, he declared, "does not represent literary America today...