Word: sigismund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Best Novel-Thomas Sigismund Stribling. $1,000 for The Store (TIME, July 4). Best Play-Maxwell Anderson, $1,000 for Both Your Houses (TIME, Mar. 13). Best History-to the late Frederick J. Turner, $2,000 for The Significance of Sections in American History. Best Biography-Allan Nevins. $1,000 for Grover Cleveland (TIME, Jan. 2). Best Volume of Verse-Archibald MacLeish of the editorial staff of FORTUNE, $1,000 for Conquistador (TIME, April...
...Author. Born in Tennessee, 1881, Thomas Sigismund Stribling was graduated from the University of Alabama in 1904, wrote super-Sundayschoolish stories for the Nashville Sundayschool magazine. From such efforts he made a slow recovery. Birthright, his first novel, was published in 1921. Ten years later he began publishing his cycle for which he has been gathering material all his life. Says he of its characters, its locale: "To talk about whom I interviewed for this book is nonsense. I was born into it and when I get out of it, I'll die out of it." Other books: Fombombo...
...Author?Publishers Doubleday, Doran announce that The Forge is the first of a cycle in which Author Thomas Sigismund Stribling?will show "the upheaval of a whole civilization." A Tennessean but not an unreconstructed Southerner, Stribling* has written of the Civil War with malice toward none, with flashes of charitable humor for most. Other books: Birthright, Teeftallow, Bright Metal, Backwater...
...Railways ran excursions from all over Germany, from France, Hungary, Poland. Day after day the museums were crowded with throngs of the artistic, anxious to admire the work of Romanesque and Gothic goldsmiths, of the pious, eager to venerate the skeleton arms of St. Lawrence and St. Sigismund, the skull of St. Blasius, the finger of John the Baptist and other anatomical remains...