Word: essays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the studios, a quarter from independents. Most of it will be spent on newspaper advertising. There will also be radio programs, six trailers, a contest in which 5,404 people will win a total of $250,000 by answering questions about 30 films and writing a 50-word essay. Sample question: "What did Snow White's stepmother coax her to eat in order to cast a spell over her?-a mince pie, an apple, a strawberry tart, or a roast duck?" Sample essay: "Snow White made me feel like a child again. . . ." Print order for the 32-page...
...when Newscaster Carter took the microphone for his final broadcast, he devoted his time to reading aloud, from Philosopher John Stuart Mill's essay Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion, excerpts relating to the evils of violating freedom of speech and the press. At the close of the broadcast, Commentator Carter turned from Philosopher Mill, said: "It is indeed, as the makers of Huskies and Post Toasties have said, as Erik Rolf so ably put it, it is considerably a matter of inability to find convenient time to meet the desires of General Foods that brings this series...
...snouts) of Salt Lake City, great-granddaughter of the late much-married (approximately 25 wives) Mormon Brigham Young, recently won a Make-the-Most-of-Yourself contest sponsored by the fashion magazine, Mademoiselle. Like her competitors, 5,000 other plain young women, she submitted pictures, composed a 500-word essay on ''Why I Should Be Chosen To Be Made Over." Long of nose, mousy of hair, skinny of figure, Miss Foutz won with a frank letter showing no self-pity, frank pictures indicating need of makeover (see cut). Last week she went to Manhattan to receive her prize...
Sample platitudes and homely phrases: "To essay too much at once may, by arousing opposition, imperil the plan." "In stead of applying the principle of self-education there has been too much drag ging of youth over the ground in perambulators and wondering why their running does not improve," An epigram Dr. Lowell borrows may be borrowed also by un friendly biographers as his epitaph: "We pride ourselves on being a practical people - which Disraeli somewhere described as men who practice the errors of their ancestors...
...last trip home. That evening he was host to royalty: Prince Louis Ferdinand Hohenzollern and his bride, the former Grand Duchess Kyra Romanoff. When he took them to church on Sunday morning, he was tickled by a parable read by the Rev. Frank R. Wilson. It was an essay by a school girl on Manhattan's East Side. Its subject: "True greatness." Its text...