Word: bernhard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swedish inventor of dynamite, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, did not, strictly speaking, found and endow a "Peace Prize." Phrasemakers coined that term. It has come to suggest a shining award, fit only for such world-great champions as Theodore Roosevelt, who won it in 1906, or Woodrow Wilson, to whom it fell in 1918. Yet the words of M. Nobel are clear. What he founded and endowed was no simple "Peace Prize" but an award "for fraternization among nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the calling and propagating of peace congresses...
...inch since the portrait is only 17 in. x 11⅜ in. Her name is Emilia Pia de Montefeltro, and to set his mind at rest as to whether or not she was painted by her fellow townsman Raphael Sanzio, Mr. Epstein has letters from such authorities as Connoisseur Bernhard Berenson of Paris and Dr. George Gronau of Cassell, Germany. Mr. Epstein's agents, F. Kleinberger Inc., of Manhattan, told last week how Dr. Gronau had discovered her, through a friendly priest, in a dusty room in a decaying house in an old precinct of Vienna...
...Sudermann* by not asking him to become a member of its new literature department, and was snubbed by Gerhart Hauptmann† who declined the honor (TIME, June 7), made haste last week to protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed by such "advanced" writers as Georg Kaiser, Bernhard Kellerman, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann. Inverse Income Tax. Signor Mattia Battistini, tolerably good Italian baritone, appealed to the tax collector of Duisburg (Rhineland) last week, to be classified as a "well-known singer," and deposed under oath: "My successful career as a singer has extended over 50 years...
...Established by the will of the late Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-96), Swedish chemist and engineer, in addition to similar prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Peace, without distinction of nationality (TiME, Nov. 30, 1925). Individual awards now total about $35,000 each, and are made annually, provided, 1) the candidates are deserving, and 2) the interest on the invested funds is adequate. The Literature winners include: Sully-Prudhomme (1901, first award made), Kipling (1907), Maeterlink, (1911), Hauptmann (1912), Tagore (1913), Rolland (1915), Anatole France (1921). Yeats (1923) Reymont (1924) and 6 Scandinavians...
...Cabbages, Brussels sprouts, and spinach do not contribute much to bodily tissues. But they are invaluable for the lime they furnish to the teeth."-Bernhard Gottlieb of Vienna...