Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...civic hero whose services promoting bazaars and festivals have won him a collection of loving cups from the grateful citizenry. This infantile and lovable fellow's desire to marry a. Danish beauty depends on his niece's winning $5,000 in a singing contest. How the prize was lost but Mr. Connolly's bride was won is a story which becomes a bit too long in the last act. It involves, however, some excellent villainy on the part of the niece's mother (Beatrice Terry, niece of the late great Dame Ellen Terry) as well...
...Hart, Schaffner & Marx prize for an undergraduate economic essay, founded in 1903, was won last week by Jean Trepp, Wellesley, 1929. Subject: "Trade Union Interest in Production...
...down to the fact that men will in effect be required to take a large majority of their meals in the Houses or lose money. This unavoidable element of compulsion is in itself contrary to an ancient Harvard policy and is bound to arouse opposition from all those who prize this tradition of individualism and non-interference as something almost unique in American education...
That was how tradition required the 10? fictioneers to begin their lusty shockers. Author Pearson has collected prize examples of this U. S. phenomenon. The matter he quotes is alone worth the price. It is set out chronologically with a running commentary that, oddly enough, sometimes berates the authors, sometimes exalts them by comparison with today's literary idols...
...advertising "colored engravings for the people, published by N. Currier, lithographer:"† He either draughted the designs himself or copied famous paintings, lithographed them in cheap, garish colors, sold them by thousands. During the Civil War, with Collaborator J. M. Ives, Nathaniel Currier made battle scenes, gave them to prize-winning essayists and orators in the grammar schools and as premiums in grocery stores to drum up patriotism. After the war the firm exploited and illustrated early frontier anecdotes, railroad sagas, Mississippi River steamboat races. They flooded the country with pictures of George Washington at home, baby looking at mama...