Thornton Wilder won a 1928 Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
This is a stretch, but Thornton Wilder's 1928 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, shares the term "bridge" with dentistry.
The Pulitzer Prize is a prestigious award recognizing excellence in journalism, literature, and musical composition. Charles Lindbergh was awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation in 1928 for his solo transatlantic flight from New York to Paris, which made him the first person to accomplish this feat.
Eugene O'Neill was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama four times: in 1920 for "Beyond the Horizon," in 1922 for "Anna Christie," in 1928 for "Strange Interlude," and in 1957 posthumously for "Long Day's Journey into Night."
Thornton Dial was born in 1928.
Charles Thornton-Duesbury died in 1928.
Robert Thornton Henderson was born in 1928.
Ray Thornton was born on July 16, 1928, in Conway, Arkansas, USA.
Sigrid Undset won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928.
Owen Willans Richardson won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928.
Cole Prize was created in 1928.
Thornton Kipper was born September 27, 1928, in Bagley, WI, USA.
Charles Jules Henri Nicolle won The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1928.