Word: slippering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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POLLY PREFERRED-Genevieve Tobin, a Cinderella of the movies, meets a go-getter godfather, who clothes her in splendor and wins her the right to tread the sacred soil of Hollywood in the slipper of fortune...
POLLY PREFERRED?Genevieve Tobin, a Cinderella of the movies, meets a go-getter godfather, who clothes her in splendor and wins her the right to tread the sacred soil of Hollywood in the slipper of fortune...
...relative justice and intelli gence shown in the awards. Meanwhile the weary judges, let us hope, are recuperating in some pleasant clime unvexed by newspaper-clippings. It must be the devil of a business, hunting among contemporary books and plays for a Cinderella to fit the little glass slipper...
Especially when the glass slipper is made to such definite specifications as Mr. Pulitzer's. Most patrons who give such prizes seem quite unable to do it without various qualifications. And, no adequate Bertillon system having yet been invented for literature or the drama, these qualifications ? except where they concern matters of ascertainable fact, such as the citizenship of the author, or the year of a play's nativity ? must, in general, be dodged when the time comes for the award of the laurel wreath. Very sensibly, too?but, why have the qualifications in the first place? Could...