Word: champeens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week's sellout audience compared the Paganini favorably with such well-established quartets as the Budapest, the Pro Arte and the Roth. The San Francisco Examiner's Alexander Fried took a longer view. Said he: "You don't pick a champeen after he's won one bout in Kalamazoo...
...Ballet Theater? The only male dancer in the Ballet Theater who is tops is Andre Eglevsky, while John Kriza, John Taras, etc. are strictly still in the stage of development. Obviously no company in America can offer Frederic Franklin in such a wide variety of roles as the "Champeen Roper" in "Rodeo," the "Golden Slave" in "Scheherazade," the "Baron" in "Gaite Parisienne" and in a variety of classic roles ranging from "Les Sylphydes" to the "Nuteracker," and in such modern classical roles as "Danses Concertantes" and "Mozartina...
...that on $65 per month our little company's contributions averaged $38.75 per man in the Pearl Harbor bond drive, to the mystification of all, especially the men concerned. But we can't forget to boast of our present pride and joy, the company basketball team which became "champeen" of the entire Supply School under the blazing leadership of "Flashing Jack" Falsey, late of Harvard across the Charles
Twelve thousand fight fans sat dumfounded. Kinky-haired Henry Armstrong, world's welterweight champion, was down in the centre of the ring. Echoing from the rafters of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden wailed the voice of Announcer Harry Balogh: "Winnah and New Champeen - Fritzie...