Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Birthdays. Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, 78, first U. S. physicist to win the Nobel Prize, longtime head of University of Chicago's physics department; Henrietta Szold, 70, founder of Hadassah (women's Zionist organization); Princess Hermine, 43, wife of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm von Hohenzollern; King Alexander I of Jugoslavia...
...Affairs); Georges Leygues (Interior) ; Louis Barthou (War); Paul Painleve (Air); Camille Chautemps (Education). That the great M. Painleve, thrice Prime Minister and often War Minister, should have consented to take the Ministry of Air seemed most significant, for previously the air portfolio has been a trifle infra dig, the prize of lesser statesmen like M. Laurent Eynac...
...Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Sinclair Lewis for his powerful and vivid art of description and his ability to use wit and humor in the creation of original characters...
...Kroner. Prize presentations and the prizemen's acceptance speeches were at separate ceremonies. Each Nobel check for 172,946 kronor ($46,350) was encased in a sleek portfolio. Redder and redder flushed red-haired Author Lewis as the three other prizemen received their portfolios. When his turn came to step up to King Gustaf and receive $46,350 from the Royal hand Mr. Lewis advanced jerkily, bowed abruptly, deeply...
...Princeton, N. J., Dr. van Dyke observed: "Who would be so unkind as to interrupt the bubbling joy of the author of Elmer Gantry in receiving the Nobel Prize?" Prizeman Lewis had hoped that Dr. van Dyke would not "demand the landing of U. S. Marines at Stockholm to protect American literary rights." Princeton's patriarch rejoined: "Why send the marines to Stockholm to interfere with the Babbitt? Just tell it to them...