Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter Duranty of the New York Times for his articles on Russia; $500 to Charles G. Boss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for a discussion of the U. S. economic situation. Editorial: no award. Reporting: deferred. Cartoon: $500 to John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune for "A Wise Economist Asks a Question." Drama: $1,000 to George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin for Of Thee I Sing, obviously the year's foremost Broadway production, to the Pulitzer Board a "biting and true satire on American politics." Novel, History, Biography, Poetry: respectively to Pearl Sydenstricker Buck...
Tragedies based on renunciation have been rare enough on the American screen, where happy ends must always be peeping around the corner. And when the American films have turned to tragedies, they have seldom been without wild-eyed women given to clock-wise or counter-clockwise movements of the arms...
...Pierre travels on with his mother, gets a big-time job with Haines's Roman Circus as chariot rider, gladiator. In this capacity he fascinates Leah, a waning mistress of wealthy benefactors long deceased. Pierre and she take up together in Chicago. She holds him with her comfortable, wise charms, and with the money she can lend. At the sight of the world of wealth, Pierre's banker's blood begins to simmer. With Muller, a circus mechanic, he opens a bicycle shop. Soon Muller and he are fooling with automobiles. Their first model is bought...
...practically free from competition. In 1901 certain patent expirations opened the way for an invasion of the field. At present the stiffest competition comes from the Duplex Printing Press Co., Walter Scott & Co., the Goss Printing Press Co. and the Wood Newspaper Machinery Corp. headed by Henry Alexander Wise Wood, who was financed by James Gordon Bennett and others. High-speed color printing for newspapers is Mr. Wood's chief interest and in it he will recognize only one rival, the Claybourn Press (used by the Pittsburgh Press). Another big developer of color presses has been C. B. Cottrell...
...wise debutant figures on spending $300 for the rent of the hall ($250 if it is an afternoon recital), $100 for a manager's fee, $300 for publicity, advertising, rent of piano. Singers, violinists and cellists have to pay their accompanists besides (average...