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Article: Winning Similes Keen As a Sharpened Eye
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 18, 1994
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T he time is at hand to announce winners in the Great Simile Contest
of 1994. In Section One, we sought similes for something having to
do with solidity. The $100 prize goes to W. F. Roberts of Otego,
N.Y., who wrote of a woman "whose pie crusts were like plaster
casts."
In Section Two, we invited similes for something having to do
with laughter. A $100 prize goes to Arthur R. Miller of Akron, N.Y.,
who imagined a happy woman: "If her laugh could fill a glass you
would call it champagne."
Section Three was for elementary and middle schools. The $100
prize goes to Mrs. Marie Franckowiak's seventh-grade English class at
Kenmore Middle School in Kenmore, N.Y. (Fifth place went to Jeane ...